Hiiraan Online
Sunday, May 31, 2015
MOGADISHU (HOL) -- Mogadishu mayor has joined the mounting public outrage against the recent Somalia's population survey by the government which has met rage over what many consider to be a' faked' figure, with experts doubt the likelihood of making such estimations at the present time.
The new survey by the planning and international corporation ministry which was said to have started in 2013 concluded that the country's overall population is 12.3 million people, provoking questions about whether the reality is worse than the government is letting on.
"It's a very unacceptable survey - it's more of a false dream than reality," Hassan Mohamed Hussein, aka Mungab, Mogadishu mayor told reporters on Sunday.
"More badly, they said that Mogadishu has 1.5 million populations and above which is another cock-and-bull story." He said.
Mr. Mungab said that the new survey feels like using a satellite receiver to reckon the number of the population in Mogadishu which he said would produce an imaginative figure.
"It's a survey that bears an irresponsibility which deserves denunciation." He said.
As critics seem to be presenting fair nuisance, Somalia's government failed to put the controversy to rest, prompting more accusations from authorities in Puntland who accused the government of 'faking' the new population estimation data.