School feeding: Bauchi Govt Begins enumeration 1.1m pupils


Blessing Bature-Akpakpan, Abuja

The Bauchi State Government has begun the enumeration exercise of 1.1 million pupils to scale up implementation of the Federal Government’s National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in the state.

Special Adviser to Gov Bala Mohammed on Social Investment Programme (N-SIP), Hajiya Amina Katagum, stated this at the inauguration of the electronic enrollment exercise that the three-week exercise would be conducted across the 20 local government of the state, to generate quality data for the programme

Katagum said, “The enumeration is conducted by the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian, Disaster Management and Social Investment Programme in partnership with Bauchi state Government and charged “all the 7,538 food vendors to comply with the directives of the exercise as the exercise will provide us with the opportunity to enroll more pupils, if approved by the Federal Government,” she said.

"Corps members were also engaged for the exercise and called on the general public to cooperate with them for a hitch free exercise, that the recent non payment of funds to food vendors was in line with the scaling up exercise.

She expressed optimism on the proposed scale up of the programme, adding that community mobilisation was ongoing to mobilise participation and compliance of the exercise.

Also speaking, an official of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Bauchi State office, Mr Walbe Setka, said that a monitoring mechanism had been developed for the monitoring and supervision of the exercise in the state.

According to him, 312 Corps members are deployed to various communities, they were trained in the four zones of the state for the exercise. “A mechanism was devised to ensure that quality data is obtained and we have all written to their places of primary assignments for them to carry out the exercise while urging the Corp members to be patriotic in discharging their assignments.

Mr Gidado Abubakar, an official of the NHGSFP Abuja office, said that the exercise was aimed at enumerating the beneficiaries across the country for national planning on the NHGSFP.

Some of the food vendors, Mrs Maimuna Bello and Mrs Maryan Umar, expressed their appreciation for the investment of the Federal Government in the programme.

OK enumerate very well so we will know how many millions we will spend even on those not in the school

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