The Senior Special Assistant to the President on School Feeding, Dr. Yetunde Adeniji, made this known.
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Hajiya Fatima Bisallah, Team Leader for the enumeration from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, disclosed this in Minna on Wednesday.
The ADC, in a statement released on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Yemi Kolapo, particularly frowned at the reported spending of hundreds of millions, daily, on school children’s feeding even when schools remained shut.
Kano State Government says it is spending N350 million every month on its School Feeding Programme to incorporate Pupils from Primary 4-6 across the state.
The Kaduna state Government said it would continue to feed pupils in primary four to six when school resumes in September 2018.
The Headmasters stated this when the National Social Investment Programme Focal Person in charge of Gombe State, Maryam Mele, visited their schools to monitor developments in the ongoing Home-Grown School Feeding Programme of the Federal Government.
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
Adamu said a report on the programme indicated that the pupils have developed the habit of leaving school immediately after the free meal under the guise of going to drink water