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FG PRIMARY SCHOOLS FEEDING PROGRAMME : CONTROVERSIES TRAIL COLLAPSE






Just as controversies trail the home grown school feeding programme of the federal government,as it also hit the rock in ondo state again.


The Special Adviser to the Ondo State Governor on Public and Inter-governmental relations, Mrs. Olubunmi Ademosu, has also explained that the suspension of the Home Grown School Feeding Programme of the federal government in Ondo was as a result of discrepancies in the information submitted by food vendors in the state.


Ademosu, speaking in Akure, the Ondo state capital, said many of the cooks engaged for the programme did not have bank accounts before they registered for the programme.

According to her, “They however hurriedly opened bank accounts without genuine Bank Verification Numbers. Many of the names submitted by the vendors did not tally with the Bank Verification Numbers, (BVN’s). Saying this created difficulty in crediting their accounts".



Adding that " Most of these cooks are not high-tech caterers in line with the decision of government to ensure that the programme does not only provide food for school children but also serve as an empowerment platform for the people,” she explained.


Ademosu posits that the agency monitoring the programme in Abuja discovered that apart from giving wrong information about themselves, many of the vendors had plans to sublet the job for people that were not medically and professionally certified fit for the programm.


 According to her,the Home Grown School Feeding programme was carefully designed in a way that resources allocated for the success of the programme are not diverted, hence the direct crediting of the accounts of the over 1,000 cooks engaged for the programme. She said about 78,000 pupils were already being fed in the state with a target to feed over 100,000 pupils across the three senatorial districts.



In a swift reaction to the claims, a parent and human rights activist in the state, Dr. Omotosho Samuel noted that enough of white and plain lies of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led administration in the country and Ondo state, that the home grown feeding Programme has collapse simple.


The human rights activist posits that it shows that the APC led administration at the federal and state level are not thorough and sincere with claims of BVN, discripiancies of caterers and qualifications of caterers involved in the project, saying the same rhetorical stories on same project are coming from states on the project,as the plain truth is that the project has collapsed.


While calling on the Buhari-led administration in the country to always be sincere in their policies and projects for the people, rather than playing politics with human lived in the country.

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