In the bid to authenticate the actual number of pupils benefiting from the School Feeding Programme, Federal Government has commenced a verification exercise in Nasarawa State.
a total of 196, 873 pupils in public schools in the state are to be verified in the course of the exercise.
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, disclosed this in Lafia, during a courtesy call on Governor Abdullahi Sule at the Government House, Lafia.
Represented by Abdullahi Usman, Technical Adviser to the Minister, she stated that the exercise was aimed at obtaining more data of the benefiting pupils in order to know the actual number of pupils across Nasarawa State.
She explained that the NHGSFP programme was a multi-faceted intervention of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to drive school enrolment, retention, boost nutrition of the pupils, support local production of food and boost income generation.
She said the idea of the exercise was to prove that those being fed are actually human beings, adding that it was aimed at providing one nutritious meal to all pupils in public primary schools in classes 1 to 3.
Farouk added that apart from the exercise, the NHGSFP as directed by President Buhari, plans to scale up the number of pupils benefiting from the programme, so as to bring more pupils under the umbrella of government’s social protection mechanism.
In his response, Governor Sule expressed gratitude to President Buhari for introducing the NHGSFP Intervention targeted at assisting the poor through the provision of one nutritious meal to pupils in public primary schools across the country.
Sule said Nigerians would be happy if the targeted people are the real and actual beneficiaries without anyone hijacking the programme.
The governor who assured of his administration’s support and commitment to ensure that the intervention succeeds in the state, called for proper monitoring and supervision on the part of the focal persons in the state.
Recall that the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, NHGSFP was launched by the Federal Government to cater for children in public schools across the country.
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