More on census

I was directed to Chxta's take on the population issue & I couldn't but bare my mind on the issue. You know this matter affects everyone, even our kids yet unborn.
Thank God you witnessed the epic migration of people from Lagos. And after they were counted in their states, did they remain there? When revenue is to be allocated, will it be made on the headcounts done during the census or on the actual presence & residence of people in a place? People will definitely be concerned about revenue allocation when states like Lagos receive less money per head because the hausas would have returned to Lagos to earn a living when the allocation for Kano would be spent on the few that remain there.Let's not lie to ourselves, even the Obasanjo Government that is doing many wonderful ground-breaking reforms dont have budgets for housing. So the governor of Kano receives his allocation only to affect the lives of people PRESENT in his state at the moment. If he has so much money to take care of his people and all he does is provide healthcare, water, security & a few other things for the people PRESENT in his state (cos he cant provide healthcare for those who have migrated) while Tinubu is bulging his eyes out on how to provide adequate security ('cos area boys are on the increase) and housing so people don't sleep under the bridge, isn't that impartiality? And the government has no other means of determining the ratio of revenue allocation than to use the figures of already migrated people! States with greater population density would definitely argue that they should get more. Thank God you discovered that the population of Bayelsa isn't much while they've been collecting 'gbemu'. The truth is it is not only Alams that has been collecting this money. If he was he was not eating it all alone. An hegemonic group is definitely there sharing the stuff. And you ask the governors of the west to sit still while their counterparts are sharing a greater part of the national cake?! They would be asking themselves, 'is it not this looting business we all are into? Why must some chop the larger part of the national cake while we do the major work?'.

The only way people wont refute results of census is only when the result isn't used in sharing revenue allocation, or census is taken while people don't migrate en mass. Pardon me for my laziness in research or I would have expatiated on how it is done, but I hear that census is done sceintifically in the U.S by determining figures using heat emission from the body (or something like that, before you quote me!) . This way the data could be captured at night when there is little movement. I guess Emeritus Blog Professors like Grandiose Parlor & Chippla can find that out & explain the modus operandi.
The politics involved in the use of the data would always make people in the south feel concerned. Some argue without data to prove for real, but the truth is better seen with the naked eyes. You can't subpoena such people for them to prove it, they can see it!
The truth is these people who use it for revenue allocation know these things, but they ARE NOT READY to digress from using it because it sure favours their clan. And they WILL DO MANY THINGS to make sure that it is kept that way! Except ofcourse if the opposition quorum is loud enough to help rescue Nigeria from their grasp.