The President Muhammadu Buhari administration has stated that its plan to feed school children at home is not a scam.

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, spoke on Thursday.

Many Nigerians on and off social media have been condemning the policy, insisting that it was not transparent.

On Wednesday, the Nigerian Patriots (NP) called the feeding scheme a fraud and insisted that those benefitting must be punished.

Days earlier, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Bode George, has chided the Buhari government over the programme.

“Pumping money into school feeding programme while the schools are not open is a little absurd. It is a redundant, unworkable palliative. In a nation where there is no standard numbering of houses, how do you get the food to the beneficiaries? This is more than laughable. It is tragic”, George declared.

But Farouq has defended the government’s decision to spend N679million on the programme.

She spoke in Lagos at the flag-off of food items distribution under the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) at the St. Francis Primary School in Maryland.

Farouq was represented by the Director of National Commission for Refugees, Immigrants and IDPs, Margaret Ukaegbu.

The minister said feeding children at home is an internationally accepted practice to check food insecurity and malnutrition.

“The idea of take-home rations is not unique to Nigeria, neither is it a scam. It is a globally accepted means of continuing to have access to nutrition and nutritionally-rich foods, despite disruptions to the traditional channels of school feeding,” The Nation quoted her as saying.

Titilola Adeyemi-Doro, Special Assistant to the President on NHGSFP, said 37,589 households were selected out of 112,767 pupils benefiting from the school feeding programme in Lagos.

The official explained that the team “engaged the community to formulate the definition of being poor and not being able to provide for their wards”.

She said priority was given to “women, widow-headed households, households headed by persons with a disability, households whom the head has lost his or her job and have no or little income among other criteria”.

source: https://dailypost.ng/2020/05/22/buharis-minister-farouq-reacts-as-nigerians-declare-feeding-programme-a-scam/

Interesting theory

Very interesting

Madam you for just jejely keep quiet na. Stop embarrassing yourself.

Issoryt.....we just take one eye dey watch em.

There are literally 3 things you can't hide in dx world; the sun, the moon and the truth

I'll agree with her that it's international practice to feed kids to check food insecurity.
But this is Nigeria where good things always come with bad intentions.

In this instance, intention to embezzle money.

Nutritional requirements and Buharis school feeding shii can't be in one sentence madam minister. We have seen the trash you feed kids with.

ValCon888:
I'll agree with her that it's international practice to feed kids to check food insecurity.
But this is Nigeria where good things always come with bad intentions.

In this instance, intention to embezzle money.

What about the food quality? Can it compete favorably with international practice?

It's s scam

I think this is Bubu administration very own 'Diezani'

Gandollar:
What about the food quality? Can it compete favorably with international practice?

Of course it cannot. But you have to cut your coat according to your cloth. My problem isn't the feeding program but that unscrupulous elements will take advantage of it to enrich their pockets.

Pure scam.

Watch as some corrupt minded fools come to her defence....

ValCon888:

Of course it cannot. But you have to cut your coat according to your cloth. My problem isn't the feeding program but that unscrupulous elements will take advantage of it to enrich their pockets.

When you say cutting your coat to your size, I take it to mean cutting your coat according to your cloth.
You contradicted yourself by implying at the end that the funds would be embezzled.

It means Nigeria is not poor and coat size should not come up because we have the means to put out quality food, only it will be embezzled.

Guilty conscience.School feeding program is a scam.

School feeding programme is simply just an avenue to loot even though some school children do benefit

We have spent money and will continue to spend more money despite the nation lockdown and schools close and there is nothing anybody can do about it.

In a layman understanding, this is the summary of what the minister said.



These guys don't just take Nigerians for a ride they think we are fools which we are not.

Gandollar:
When you say cutting your coat to your size, I take it to mean cutting your coat according to your cloth.
You contradicted yourself by implying at the end that the funds would be embezzled.

It means Nigeria is not poor and coat size should not come up because we have the means to put out quality food, only it will be embezzled.

You don't get. No matter how rich Nigeria is, the food quality cannot be the same with that found internationally, in countries like the UK, or Denmark, even the US. And on top that, the funds will still be embezzled in the sense that the quality of the meals will be less than what it should be if all the money was fully utilized into taking care of the kids.

Diezani, come and see your sister o!

Fraud and APC are life partners

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This is your Second Lady... Buhari's second wife and this is her way to wak money.

Congratulations to the contractors.
They are the real beneficiaries.

How can you say you are feeding pupils at home but exempt some pupils. In a school that they are feeding 180 pupils, only 50 pupils were enlisted to be fed at home. Who does that? And the remaining money will go to their pocket.

Even when schools were opened, the food they are giving to the children was rubbish. Looting everywhere, from federal level to the grassroots.

If they can't do things right, they shouldn't introduce it at all.

Nonsense and school feeding