The pilot phase of the implementation of the federal government’s Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) has commenced for about 46,119 pupils in public primary schools across Kogi State.
Programme Manager of HGSFP in Kogi State, Hajiya Khadijat Karibo, who revealed this in an interview, said that the school feeding excise in the state started on February 8, 2019 across public primary schools in 18 out of the 21 LGAs of the state.
In her explanation, the school feeding excise was supposed to cover all the 21 LGAs but the implementation is about to start in Adavi, Dekina and Ankpa LGAs as a result of Bank Verification Numbers (BVNs) mismatch made available by some of caterers recruited to feed the school children in the affected areas.
But assure people that bank has already taken control of that, any moment from now the programme will commenced in the remaining area of the State.
She provide the details of the kind of food children are to be feed with.
She said, “timetable drawn for the programme, pupils are to be fed rice, beans and fish on Mondays; pasta and eggs on Tuesdays; jollof rice and beef on Wednesdays while milk and energy biscuits are to be served on Fridays”.
She also reveal the total number of caterer recruited, how the programme will be monitor, also stress the important of the feeding, by saying that it will increase the numbers of pupils enrolment.
Her statement read, ” a total of 850 caterers were earlier recruited and trained for the pilot programme in the first phase but 223 of them were yet to access their payments to enable them commence feeding due to issues of mismatch in their BVNs.
” Desk Officers, Coordinators, N-Power beneficiaries were on ground across the various local government areas to ensure effective implementation of the programme.
” school enrolment across public primary schools in the state would increase following the implementation of the school feeding programme”.
She concludes her statement by saying that, the second phase of the programme is expected to start by the time the children resume from the Easter holidays.
Credit: Daily Trust, Kogi Report
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