The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria on Monday, criticized the National Bureau of Statistics recent unemployment data.
According to the organization, the country’s unemployment rate fell dramatically from 33.1 percent in March 2021 to 4.1 percent in the first quarter of 2023.
In response, the group’s national coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, accused the entire process of violating scientific methodology as well as existential and real-time truths.
He said that the publishing was intended to respond quickly to the groundswell of concerns, consternation, and anxieties expressed by millions of Nigerians over the high cost of living and inflation caused by the increase in petrol pump prices.
HURIWA stated that the Presidency influenced the work.
Onwubiko claimed that the NBS was once chastised by the previous administration for “boldly relying on credible facts and figures to draw up conclusions on unemployment or poverty-related data” about the country and citizens.
According to the Organization, the “appearance of this political piece of jaundiced propaganda by Tinubu’s government through contrived unemployment data is far removed from the realities of life in Nigeria today.”
