The Nigerian government decided to embark on its first national headcount in 15 years. The census which began on the 21st of March enters its third day amid clashes between police and separatists, attacks on counters and protests by disgruntled census workers. Nine people, three policemen and six vigilantes were killed in a shootout Monday night in the southern Nnewi (town in eastern Nigeria) market town when security forces tried to search a house for suspected Biafran nationalists, according to police. In Onitsha, census counters said they had refused to go into the field after several of them were attacked with machetes and acid and their census documentation forms were taken from them by suspected MASSOB activists. The census was disrupted for a second day in northern Nigeria after hundreds of counters continued their protests, saying their wages had not yet been paid.However, in many other parts of the country including a rain-drenched commercial capital Lagos, the exercise was slowly getting underway. I'm just waiting to see the overall outcome of all this,lets hope we get through with it peacefully.
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