The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts on Monday expressed serious reseration over the shopping sum of N186 billion reportedly expended on the Federal Government’s School feeding programme by the National Conditional Cash Transfer Office (NICTO) the coordinating office handling the project in the Presidency.

The Chairman of the Committee Hon Busayo Oluwole Oke and other members of the Committee while grilling the National Coordinator of the School Feeding Programme Dr. Mrs Sinkaye Temitope and National Safety Net Coordinating Officer Mr Iowa Apera on the disbursement of the N64bn out of N186 billion said to have been so far spent on feeding the school pupils alone expressed displeasure over the development, discribing it as outrageous and unacceptable.

Consequently, the Committee currently investigating the management and utilisation of the Presidential Task Force PTF on COVID-19 demanded a complete project audit of the programme immediately

The lawmakers were enraged by a document submitted to the committee which showed that the NICTO office received a credit of $400 million from the World Bank, $321 million from Abacha Restitution and another $400 million said to be balance from the government equity fund.

But the National Coordinator told the lawmakers that the feeding programme had been on-going since 2016 when the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs initiated it and had so far gulped N186 billion in totality.

She further told the committee that the budget breakdown showed that N63.2 billion, N32.2 billion and N124.4 billion were spent by the office in 2018, 2019 and 2020 respectively.

Momah was visibly enraged as it was documented that 200,000 pupils from different families had benefited from it from Ihiala local council area of Anambra State which he refuted.

The Committe Chairman Rep.Oke who also administered an oath to the National Coordinator also said that the Committee would look at the documents submitted adding that the funds mighty not have passed through appropriation by the parliament.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/06/reps-reject-%e2%82%a6187bn-expenditure-on-fg-school-feeding-programme/

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My country, my country . I'm tired of lamenting over this stuff Everytime, but let's know that fear of God is needed in everything we do. No be say make we no gain ooo, but this figure is outrageous!

When they are yet to account for the ones spent. The Corona Virus pandemic is really exposing the leadership problem and corruption going on in the country. Nigeria can never prosper with her current composition.

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The zoo is on autopilot. Anyone that still have hope in Buhari’s government is day dreaming.

Mheen! It's seriously serious!

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In this period when frugality and prudence ought to be maintained, FG went on spending spree.Schools are on long break as a result of pandemic,where are the pupils/students to feed?Nigeria hardly maintains or has no harmonized database system,how would all the pupils/students be reached for the hand-outs?Most of all, Nigerian debt profile is mounting up like Mount Everest daily.

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Thieves casting robbers .

Now they are thinking right

Too late!

That minister of disaster management is the biggest disaster in this administration.

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They can do whatever they please. Nigerians aren’t going to utter a single world. Heck, they can stop funding healthcare all together and people aren’t going to do a damn thing about it.

A MQ-9 reaper carrying 4 AGM-114 hellfire Missile at 20000ft commandeered by God should leave a US drone base in Niger right now and help mop up the charity cases all located within the three arm zone, while the Nigerian people - Christians, Muslims, Obatala worshipper, Jews sing aloud :

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187billion

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