FG Spent N523M To Feed School Children During Lockdown - Farouq

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The Federal Government has spent over N523 million through the School Children Feeding Program since the Lockdown due to the Corona Virus Pandemic.

 This revelation was made by the minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (MHADMSD), Sadiya Farouq on
Monday during the Presidential Taskforce briefing on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja.

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According to her, the program was modified and implemented in three States in compliance to a March 29th Presidential directive.

In her words, "It is critical at this juncture to provide details that will help puncture the tissue of lies being peddled in the public space.
“The provision of ‘Take Home Rations’, under the modified Home Grown School Feeding programme, was not a sole initiative of the MHADMSD.

“The ministry, in obeying the Presidential directive, went into consultations with state governments through the state Governor’s Forum, following which it was resolved that ‘take-home rations’, remained the most viable option for feeding children during the lockdown
“So, it was a joint resolution of the ministry and the state governments to give out take-home rations.
“The stakeholders also resolved that we would start with the FCT, Lagos and Ogun states, as pilot cases,’’.

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According to the Minister, they arrived at a value of N4,200 per take home ration with proper consultation. The statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) states that a typical household in Nigeria has 5 to 6 members with three to four dependents. Originally, in the School Feeding Program, every pupil receives a meal per day at the cost of N70.

There are 20 school days in a month, this implies that a child consumes food worth N1,400 in a month, since it is assumed that a household has three children, three children in a household will consume food worth N4,200 per month and that is how we arrived at the cost of the 'take-home ration'.

She said that her ministry invited government agencies like the EFCC, CCB, ICPC, DSS and some NGOs to monitor the process.
“TrackaNG monitored and gave daily updates validating the programme.
“In the FCT, 29,609 households were impacted, 37,589 households in Lagos and 60,391 in Ogun, making a total of 124,589 households impacted between May 14, and July 6.
“If 124,589 households received take-home rations valued at N4,200, the amount will be N523,273,800