School feeding: Kaduna teachers eating food meant for pupils
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kyari said teachers eating up food meant for pupils have been warned to desist from the act or risk sanction1 a has alleged that some teachers in kaduna state were eating the food meant for pupils in the ongong federal governments school feeding scheme1 ms rachael musa one of the monitors said during a town hall meeting on the federal governments home grown school feeding programme in kafanchan jemaa local government said the ration do not usually go around1 musa also said although every child was supposed to be given an egg once week the eggs do not usually go round because of short supply1 similarly mr monday john another monitor alleged that some politicians were collecting money from food vendors on the ground that they were not members of the ruling all progressive congress1 john also said that some members of the peoples democratic party have equally stopped their children from eating the food saying it could be poisoned1 he described the development as serious and urged those involved to stop the act so as not to sabotage the programme1 mrs esther gushe assistant head teacher aduwan iii primary school confirmed that eggs were always in short supply in her school1 mr yakubu kyari the desk officer of the programme in the local government said he receives between 300 and 400 crates of egg weekly instead of the 730 crates for the 177 schools in the area1 the school feeding field monitors of the ngo connecting gender for development cogen on wednesday made the allegation during a town hall in the state1 cogen head of programmes mr ebenezer omolekun told the town hall meeting that findings by the ngo revealed that one egg is being shared for between two to four pupils in 46 schools whiletwo pupils share juice and biscuit in 26 schools1 he explained that the meeting with the theme together we can build our lga and make it more prosperous was primarily organised to mobilise communities and stakeholders to monitor the implementation of the school feeding programme1 he explained that cogen with support from macarthur foundation is tracking the programme in 60 schools 20 each in kaura jemaa and zangon kataf local government areas1 he said that the goal was to ensure successful implementation of the programme in promoting learning enrolment retention and completion of primary schools by pupils1 the official said that similar town hall meetings were organised in kaura and zangon kataf to enlist community support in monitoring the programme1 what we want is to ensure transparency accountability and responsiveness by all stakeholders involved in the programme omolekun said1 also speaking the chairman of the local council mr peter averik commended the ngo for supporting the federal government initiative and pledged their support because the programme is for the benefit of our children and our community1 also mr hosea david district head of ambam kaninkon commended the ngo for creating the needed awareness on the programme and enlisting their support to ensure success1 the news agency of nigerian nan reports that 420 schools in the state are being tracked by five ngos with support from macarthur foundation1