HOW TO GET A BETTER CENSUS FIGURE IN THE CROOKED NIGERIAN ENVIRONMENT.

Census?
The following idea of mine may appear original but it's not. However I cannot immediately recall the original author. Here we go:

A new revenue stream should be introduced whereby every citizen captured by the census, pays a Federal citizenship levy or tax. THE CENSUS MUST BE PRIVATELY ORGANIZED BY THE INDIVIDUAL STATE GOVERNMENTS, without the help of the Federal Government.

For every child under the age of ten a citizenship tax of N2000, every youth under 22 a tax of N4000, whereas ALL other adults are levied N8000. This must be collected by the individual crooked state governments and paid into the Federation Account ahead of the relevant accounting year. Meanwhile the raw data should be available for unscheduled snap audits by federal authorities. The impact of this salute to the Nigerian Flag will be a drop in the population of certain states. There will also be an additional gain at the state level because suddenly the states will possess accurate demographic data and a better knowledge of their true tax base. All the positive impacts will still be there irrespective of the eventual revenue sharing formula. Everybody is forced to stand up to be counted and also brings something (real cash) to the table, not just proceeds of oil