OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT

PRESS RELEASE

BUHARI’S HOMEGROWN SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME KICKS OFF IN ANAMBRA

*FG releases over N53m for 1050 primary schools to serve meals to 76, 690 pupils in the State

*More than 3.4m pupils to be fed across total 17 states under 2016 budget

*No fees required to benefit in the Social Investment schemes

In another rollout of one of the Social Investment Programmes of the Buhari administration, the National Homegrown School Feeding scheme has entered implementation stage with the feeding of primary school pupils in Anambra State today.

Last month, the N-Power scheme kicked off with the selection of the first batch of 200,000 unemployed graduates, many of whom are now being deployed in the 36 states/FCT in the first batch of the planned half a million graduates to be engaged in the N-Power Volunteer Corps, NPVC.

Meanwhile, no one should have to pay any fees to benefit in the N-Power or the Homegrown School Feeding programmes, and any such imposition or request for fees is uncalled for and illegal.

Reports of such acts of extortion in some states where beneficiaries are being asked to pay a ‘fee for registration’ have reached the Presidency, and firm instructions have been given that such acts should stop.

Speaking from Awka, Anambra State capital earlier today, the Special Assistant on Homegrown School Feeding Programme in the Office of the Vice President, Mr. Dotun Adebayo said primary school pupils in Anambra were excited as the feeding started in their schools.

Adebayo who led a team of federal and state officials to some of the schools on day one of the Homegrown School Feeding Programme implementation said they witnessed the feeding in three schools in Akwa: Community Primary School, Awka South, Central School Ameobi, and Central School in Nibo.

“The pupils were excited and enjoyed the meals,” he stated, adding that the cooks in those three schools, among the total 774 already recruited and trained for the feeding programme, served ‘Okpa’ a.k.a Moin-moin garnished with vegetables to the delight of the pupils who took the meals during their break time about noonday.

All together in Anambra State, an estimated 76, 690 pupils in 1050 schools would be served every day of school. The feeding programme caters to pupils from primary 1-3.

Having met the stated requirements for Federal Government funding for the Homegrown School Feeding, a sum of N53, 687, 900 had been released directly to cooks for the kick-off of the school feeding programme in Anambra, to last till the end of the current school term.

All the cooks were recruited from communities around the primary schools for the program, verified and trained to provide the catering service in the 21 LGAs in the State.

Generally, the Homegrown School Feeding programme, which is one of the Social Investment plans of the Buhari presidency, is driven through community participation where residents in the community are engaged as cooks to provide feeding services. Also the programme leverages on the agricultural produce available within the communities.

The Homegrown School Feeding programme of the Buhari administration will not only boost school enrollment and improve the nutritional status of the pupils, it would also stimulate local farming, while equally creating jobs including the 774 cooks now in gainful employment in Anambra State.

While the 2016 Budget of Change made provision for funding of the feeding programme in 18 states, a total of 17 States have concluded the designing of the School feeding models through state-level multi-sectorial capacity building workshops, based on FG’s stipulated requirements. Those states will proceed in the planning and would soon get to the implementation stage.

The 17 states are Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Enugu, Sokoto, Kaduna, Borno, Zamfara, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Delta, Abia and Bauchi. Estimated figures from 15 of these states put the numbers of pupils to be feed at over 3.4 million.

Also the Federal Government has successfully conducted food safety and hygiene training for over 25,000 cooks in 9 states (out of the 17).
According to the 2016 budget, provision was made for the feeding programme in 18 states of the federation.

It is the plan of the Buhari administration to implement the feeding programme all across the country, where states meet the federal requirements for such engagement. Under the school feeding programme, there are no pre-selections, but states/FCT have to meet the stipulated requirements.

While the 2016 Budget planned for 18 states, all 36 states and FCT are eligible to participate as budgetary provisions even in the new year are being considered.

Laolu Akande
Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity
Office of the Federal Government
December 8, 2016

Apc

Mallam buhari, stop insulting Anambra with petty 53million naira. You are in no way trying to better our lives, nor our kids'. We can feed our kids; and they look well fed.

Refund us the 43billion naira Anambra state had spent on fg projects.

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These kids dont eat before leavinq home??

Look at how ravenous they look,I'm sure Almajiris can't be eatinq in this manner..

Your Uncles and Dad will come here to shade PMB meanwhile this same man is the one caterinq for their younqer ones so they won't die of hunqer in school.


My Hardworkinq brothers..Always endeavor to feed your children before they set out to school.

Remember... "An hunqry man is an anqry man"

No wonder these kids qrow up to traffic........*Mouth sealed

Buhari please stop these cheap things

You give other regions project and positions, no food u dey give us?

Imagine the insult

9inches:
Mallam buhari, stop insulting Anambra with petty 53million naira. You are in no way trying to better our lives, nor our kids'. We can feed our kids; and they look well fed.
Refund us the 43billion naira Anambra state had spent on fg projects.

FG have the right to kick start the project in any state they like

the kids looks very very healthy



food is not a problem is east




i thinks government should invest those money on books and teaching materials

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watch how adults will go back to primary school

Dis govt sef, misplaced priorities. The parent can feed their wards. improve the lives of the teachers, modern class room, quality learning environment, free books, free school bus, free uniforms. until we have all these things before we can talk about free feeding of pry sch student.

kaduna state can't even do it for 2 months.
Foolish president

Anambra people sha. ..

If buhari do am for only North, dem go cry of marginalization

Time to wear my uniform and move back to primary three.. serious hunger Dy for this land ooo..
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someone should help me view my signature Abeg.

Nice.
Especially in these times...

Great, abeg what is the timetable

9inches:
Mallam buhari, stop insulting Anambra with petty 53million naira. You are in no way trying to better our lives, nor our kids'. We can feed our kids; and they look well fed.

Refund us the 43billion naira Anambra state had spent on fg projects.

If they no give them una go complain.. Now they don start am una still they complain.. Human beings sha...Quote me at your own peril..

Anambra always in d news for d right reason

See as the food look lyk ration self.

9inches:
Mallam buhari, stop insulting Anambra with petty 53million naira. You are in no way trying to better our lives, nor our kids'. We can feed our kids; and they look well fed.

Refund us the 43billion naira Anambra state had spent on fg projects.

smh for people with fish brain....but u ridiculed him for not fulfilling his promises

What an insult.... Pity!

Bubu we are NOT Almajiris! GO FEED YOUR BOKO HARAM BROTHERS!

Is dat not funny....honestly ,,,,I see no good for dat feeding program ,,,just anoda avenue to channel federal money to d purse of selfish few

Did I see under 2016 or 2017 budget?

Foolish president

Nigerians are so gullible!, just look at the class rooms ,so dirty.In trying to feed the children the fg may end up creating an epidemic. They should start by making the environment clean and conducive.

Short of words. It is well

Atleast one of their noise is coming to pass. Waiting to see this set across all other states

I beg Buhari Stop Insulting Igbo people.

You give other regions money, while giving the South East rubbish food.





You wont even give them appointments

walahi some people are so deep in the ocean of sentiment that even if government dey come deliver food three times a day to their house and still spoonfeed them, they will never see or say anything good about this government

Yes.it did.bt why ar we deceiving ourselves?it started yesd.yes.when i went to pik my child at demonstration prim schl.Akwukwu.idemilisouth.i saw him holding Okpa;seiled in a local plantain leave.and very smal.abt 20naira wort.and today.was moimoi.in plantain leaf as wel.and very smal.so i see am

When the people who are in power want to create an image to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.

Buhari is the worst president on planet earth.

Lamba