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Buhari’s homegrown school feeding programme commences in Anambra

Segun AdebowaleBy Segun AdebowaleDecember 8, 2016No Comments
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In another rollout of one of the Social Investment Programmes of the Buhari administration, the National Homegrown School Feeding scheme has entered the implementation stage with the feeding of primary school pupils in Anambra State on Thursday.
Last month, the N-Power scheme kicked off with the selection of the first batch of 200,000 unemployed graduates, many of whom are now being deployed in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
It is the first batch of the planned half a million graduates to be engaged in the N-Power Volunteer Corps.
The Presidency on Thursday equally said in a statement that no one is expected to pay any fees to benefit in the N-Power or the Homegrown School Feeding programmes.
It said any such imposition or request for fees is uncalled for and illegal.
The Presidency said reports of such acts of extortion in some states where beneficiaries are being asked to pay a “fee for registration” have reached it and firm instructions have been given that such acts should stop.
Speaking in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on Thursday, the Special Assistant on Homegrown School Feeding Programme in the Office of the Vice President, Dotun Adebayo, said primary school pupils in Anambra State were excited as the feeding started in their schools.
Adebayo, who led a team of federal and state officials to some of the schools on Day One of the Homegrown School Feeding Programme implementation, said they witnessed the feeding in three schools in Akwa: Community Primary School, Awka South; Central School, Ameobi; and Central School in Nibo.
“The pupils were excited and enjoyed the meals,” he stated, adding that the cooks in those three schools, among the total 774 already recruited and trained for the feeding programme, served okpa, popularly knowns as moin-moin, garnished with vegetables to the delight of the pupils who took the meals during their break time about noonday.
All together in Anambra State, an estimated 76,690 pupils in 1,050 schools would be served every day of school.
The feeding programme caters to pupils from primary 1-3.
Having met the stated requirements for the Federal Government funding for the Homegrown School Feeding, a sum of N53,687,900 had been released directly to cooks for the kick-off of the school feeding programme in Anambra State.
This is to last till the end of the current school term.
All the cooks were recruited from communities around the primary schools for the programme, verified and trained to provide the catering service in the 21 LGAs in the State.
Generally, the Homegrown School Feeding programme, which is one of the Social Investment plans of the Buhari presidency, is driven through community participation where residents in the community are engaged as cooks to provide feeding services.
Also the programme leverages on the agricultural produce available within the communities.
The Homegrown School Feeding programme of the Buhari administration will not only boost school enrollment and improve the nutritional status of the pupils, it would also stimulate local farming, while equally creating jobs, including the 774 cooks now in gainful employment in Anambra State, the Presidency said further.
While the 2016 Budget of Change made provision for funding of the feeding programme in 18 states, a total of 17 States have concluded the designing of the School feeding models through state-level multi-sectorial capacity building workshops, based on the Federal Government’s stipulated requirements.
Those states will proceed in the planning and would soon get to the implementation stage.
The 17 states are Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Enugu, Sokoto, Kaduna, Borno, Zamfara, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Delta, Abia and Bauchi.
Estimated figures from 15 of these states put the numbers of pupils to be feed at over 3.4 million.
Also the Federal Government has successfully conducted food safety and hygiene training for over 25,000 cooks in nine states out of the 17.
According to the 2016 Budget, provision was made for the feeding programme in 18 states of the federation.
It is the plan of the Buhari administration to implement the feeding programme all across the country, where states meet the federal requirements for such engagement.
Under the school feeding programme, there are no pre-selections, but the states and the FCT have to meet the stipulated requirements.
While the 2016 Budget planned for 18 states, all the 36 states and the FCT are eligible to participate as budgetary provisions even in the new year are being considered.

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