FG considers school feeding, Increases meal by N30.
By Naomisophyblog
The National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme has been reviewed from N70 per meal for pupils to N100 in Delta State.
Dr Darlington Ijeh, the state Commissioner for Humanitarian and Community Support Services, expressed his displeasure with the way the caterers were treated in Asaba.
Ijeh, who was sworn in as a commissioner by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa in August 2022, promised to monitor the Federal Government’s programs for the benefit of the people of the state.
“When I took office three months ago, I inherited a backlog of issues on the NHGSFP ranging from inconsistent payment to underpayment, low capturing leading to low figures for cooks, which negatively impacted our students and the state,” he said.
Today, the N70 per meal for schoolchildren has been revised to N100 per meal, and other bureaucratic obstacles that had plagued the state’s National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, such as caterer short payment and indiscriminate payment modules, have become a thing of the past.”
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The commissioner, who gave cooking tools to cooks, urged them to make morality their guiding principle in carrying out their jobs.
He stated that the school feeding program was created to feed students from primary 1 to 3 in public schools, with the goal of increasing school enrollment and improving the nutritional meals of the students.
