Statistician-Gen Wants Budget Increase For NBS

Dr. Yemi Kale, the Statistician General of the Federation, has called for an increase in the budgetary allocation of the National Bureau of Statistics.

Kale, who made the call in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja, said that inadequate funding was one of the challenges of the bureau in the generation of statistics.

“While we will continue to encourage increased support from budgetary sources and from our development partners; we must also adopt a more efficient utilisation of our resources from different sources,’’ he said.

Kale said the bureau had to develop and introduce a more coordinated, organised, practical, systematic and effective process for raising, managing and utilising its resources.

“For example, our projects and other activities need to be better managed from articulation and conceptualisation to execution and delivery.

“It is better that we have five well conceptualised, well funded and completed projects than to have 10 poorly articulated, thinly funded and uncompleted projects,’’ Kale said.

He promised to turn the bureau to a revenue generating institution to reduce the financial burden on government and the development partners.