Feeding programme: Parents of Ondo pupils decry stoppage of free meals

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PARENTS of public school students in Ondo State have decried the stoppage of the daily feeding by government under the National Home Grown School feeding programme

 The stoppage of the free meal is coming few weeks after the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo visited the state and ate with the students of a public school in Alagbaka area of the state. It was gathered that the cooks engaged for the services stopped bringing food to the schools following huge debt incured by the government. Some pupils, who spoke confirmed that food vendors had stopped the free meal programme in the last two weeks. 

 The parents, under the auspices of Concerned Parents of Primary School Pupils described the programme as “a trick to deceive parents and primary school pupils in the state as the programme has failed to achieve its desired objectives within its first few weeks in the state.” 

 They alleged “that most of the cooks employed under the programme had stopped bringing food to schools.” Speaking on behalf of the parents in Akure, Mr. Ademola Folarin, said: “Pupils had not been fed for the past two weeks the home grown school feeding program had not been consistent since it was launched in the state. 

 “We have been monitoring the implementation of this initiative for the past two weeks and we can confirm to you that this programme has been a failure in the state. 

 “Many of the cooks have stopped feeding the pupils claiming that they had not been receiving money to prepare the food. They claimed that they were only managing with little resources made available to them. 

 “The programme is a total failure in Ondo State and there is need to urgently review the programme while money should be made available for the programme to salvage the appalling situation. “The state government also earmarked about N4.2billion in the 2018 budget as part of its counterpart fund to run the programme in the state.”

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