PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan

In this interview with John Alechenu, the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, speaks about the modified school feeding programme of the Federal Government which the party described as a scam
The All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government has insisted on going ahead with its modified school feeding programme despite the fact that the schools have been shut due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What is the position of your party on this issue?

We have always said the whole school feeding programme as being carried out by this administration is a monumental scam. This is a programme which the government and agencies handling it have refused to give adequate accounts about, especially to taxpayers. It should beat anybody’s imagination that pupils are at home, in their parent’s houses, and the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Faruq, is telling Nigerians that they are taking over the functions of parents by feeding school pupils right in their parents’ homes. We are also being told that they are spending unbelievable sums of money on this programme.

It beats my imagination that such a thing is happening in the 21st century and no one is saying anything and people are not being held to account for the billions of naira being wasted in the name of this modified school feeding programme. it is unbelievable! It is unfortunate that Nigerians have yet to realise that this regime which rode on the back of propaganda to power is mortgaging not only our generation but generations yet unborn. This regime is taking billions of dollars as loans from all over the world and this is how they are spending. It is quite unfortunate.

Talking about accountability, what is the outcome of the demand placed on the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to avail the public the details of beneficiaries of this gesture?

We have made several requests. We have demanded that they make public details of the budget for this programme because as of the time the 2020 budget was passed, there was no COVID-19 lockdown. We and other concerned members of the Nigerian public have demanded that this regime make public, details of beneficiaries of their Social Investment Programme. We have demanded for the details of beneficiaries of the school feeding programme. Nigerians will like to know those households benefiting from this so called programme and all we are getting are torrents of propaganda laced with unverifiable figures; we want real answers with verifiable facts. We want to be sure that just like the party made promises it has clearly failed to deliver on, Nigerians are not being taken for another ride. When the minister was asked about the school feeding programme recently, all she could mutter was that the Federal Government was providing the funds and that the state governments were driving the process. This is laughable for a regime that has left our educational and health systems in shambles. Everybody is looking helpless while our scarce resources are being frittered away under various guises. For how long will this regime continue to try to deceive Nigerians?

What then is your assessment of this programme when juxtaposed with the number of school children which some estimates put at around 13 million?

It’s a shame. The lie that has been the guiding principle of this regime has always been laid bare by the discordant tunes being sung by ministers and appointees of the regime each time they are to speak about programmes being carried out. There is usually a lack of cohesion in answers given when asked to explain the regime’s actions. I still can’t understand why a President Muhammadu Buhari will believe that such an amount of money is being spent on providing food for pupils who are at home. I do not understand why the National Assembly is not asking the relevant questions about claims that such humongous amount of money is being spent by a ministry on feeding children in their various constituencies without their inputs, I really can’t comprehend. This is really sickening. Like I have said before, the whole school feeding scam is a scheme designed by corrupt leaders of the APC in cahoots with some elements in the Presidency to siphon N13.5bn public funds to finance their wasteful lifestyles.

It is rather unfortunate that the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has chosen to use innocent school children as cover to loot a whooping N679m daily. There can be no bigger crime against our innocent children and long-suffering parents who toil daily in search of a better life in the midst of plenty. The claim that children are being fed at home is clear evidence that corruption is in the DNA of the APC. We shall overcome sooner than later.

https://punchng.com/fgs-school-feeding-programme-a-monumental-scam-pdp/

Abacha na Apprentice for were buhari dey

Fear who no fear Nigeria, there scam dey even shock devil himself.

FTC getting scary. These guys above me refuse to sleep just to be ..........................

Now listen carefully data for this examination are as follows:

PDP IS A SCAM

APC IS A SCAM

APC IS PDP

PDP IS APC

They are all synonyms so you can you them interchangeable. Each questions carries 10 marks each............. good luck

La Believe La Collapse

I used to believe this feeding programme. But inside this lockdown o, foul!

Better scam

Just watch how the defenders of the useless APC government will come and compare the school feeding looting with the looting that happened during the 16yrs of PDP rule, as if that's why APC was voted in.

Those APC fans are brain dead.


Just wait for it...

Kingpele:
Pdp is jealous

Modified: This is one of the brain dead people I was talking about. They will never disappoint.

Chaii

Okay

We knew it b4 other Nigerians know about it

Some people are cashing out from it on a daily basis thus the APC led government insistence on it.

Pdp is jealous of APC, they understand their format of looting our public funds, so they knew APC most be doing like them when they were in charge ( though I personally agree with them to some extent) .... But most they wail at everything, this people know that most People in this country lack the patience to investigate facts and figures, that why they keep throwing figures here and there... How did this man arrive at his point... Am not in support of any party, but the overall process of this country is my priority for my sake and that of all of us. don't promote unverified views of bitter people. before we set this nation on fire, which will consume it... Loose of Election is not a call to be mad or an agent of disability of the nation, bikuno

Everyone knows this and they still talk about lack of funds and keep borrowing . How do their consciences let them borrow to loot?

Every damn thing in this country is just scam... Food progmme scam, our leaders scam, corona virus scam....Add yours

I read it from an unverified source somewhere online of a policeman claiming that he will buy a house in this pandemic period..

But How can the kettle be calling pot black[

PDP = APC

Good Morning Nigerians....

Kingpele:
Pdp is jealous

But APC needs to be more accountable.

APC members have no conscience

Yet some people are believing they will fix Nigeria

Just try to reason this..

You claim to spend N675m daily on feeding children in their parent homes but approve 25bn for basic health that would take care of those children, their parents and 200m people in a whole year..

You claim to spend N675m daily on feeding children but seek to loan N27bn with massive interest and a debt servicing to revenue of 60% for renovation of NASS building which further indebts the future of same children..

N675M × 31 DAYS(1 MONTH) = N20.925bn/mth

How else can one describe rogues as leaders

Everybody knows it's a scam na. But they will never enjoy that money. They will look for death but death won't come. They will die slowly

Okay

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Seriously, I don't know why they keep on emphasizing and insisting on this school feeding program,
This is a period where Nigeria and Nigerians are experiencing the highest level if Poverty and crisis in itshistory, and the federal government are hell bent on spending huge millions on feeding the kids instead of empowering their parents.

Personally, I feel like all these is just another way of embezzlement.

I don't see any different between Buhari and Abacha. As a matter of fact, Abacha regime was economically beneficial that buhari's administration can ever be.

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Apc & pdp have both finished Nigeria

Buhari is a scam that won't happen again.

So what is the difference between this federal government and Yahoo Yahoo boys?

Nah wah o... Birds of a feather