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FG Begins School Feeding Programme This Month- Osinbajo

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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said the government’s free National Home Grown School Feeding programme would start in some states of the federation this month.

According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, the Vice-President said this in an interview with some journalists.

The Federal Government had failed to commence the programme at the beginning of the current academic session in September as promised.

The programme, which was formally inaugurated on June 9, 2016 by Osinbajo, is part of the Social Investment Plans of the present administration for which N500bn has been budgeted for in the 2016 Appropriation Act.

The Federal Government, through the national manager of the programme, Mrs. Abimbola Adesanmi, had in July said it would commence the scheme in September when schools resumed, with 5.5 million pupils across the country.

But Osinbajo reportedly told the journalists that it was the expectation of government that the programme would kick off in several states before the end of the month.

He said while the Federal Government would fund the scheme for pupils in Primary One to Primary Three, it was expected that state governments would be responsible for pupils in primary four and above.

Osinbajo said, “Definitely before the end of this month, we expect that several states would have come on stream with their Home Grown School Feeding Programme.

“The programme will energise agriculture in the different states because it is what you plant that you feed the children with.

“We will be hiring caterers and cooks in each state because it will be Federal Government-funded from primaries 1 to 3 and the state governments hopefully would be able to cater for the other classes.”

The Vice-President said the programme was a section of the Social Investment programmes that would impact directly on the lives of Nigerian children and families.

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Board to launch School Feeding Programme in Enugu

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The Enugu Universal Basic Education Board (ENSUBEB) said on Monday in Enugu that it would start a School Feeding Programme in public primary schools in the state in 2016.

The Chairperson of the board, Ms Nneka Onuorah, said that the programme would begin with a pilot scheme with selected public schools.

 

Onuorah said that mothers of the pupils and their communities would be involved in the programme.

 

“Unlike in the past where the government used vendors to provide meals to children, this school feeding programme is more unique in that the community is fully involved.

 

“It involves the mothers; the mothers will divide themselves into teams of two or three.

“So each week, at least say team A group of mothers will cook for the children and feed the children and they will rotate.

“So the following week, team B group of mothers will now cook for the children.

“Now we find this model to be the most sustainable and we hope that we can branch it out to other schools in other communities and local governments.

“Now, if we do start, we won’t start with every school because of cost.

“We will start small, maybe we will choose one to two schools per local government; and it is always better to start small with this kind of programme.’’

 

Onuorah, who said that the state government would include the programme in the 2016 budget, appealed to the Federal Government, to support it.

She said that the board had sponsored a project aimed at de-worming pupils in primary school between June and Nov. 2015.

According to her, nearly 300,000 children benefited.

She said that the children also underwent ear, eye, and nose screening during the exercise, adding that the programme was to promote healthy growth among the children and lay a better foundation for learning.

Onuorah said that the board had organised series of training and re-training for teachers to enable them to manage schools effectively.

 

(NAN)