The Federal
Government has paid N6,204,912,889 to 14 states as it gets close to its target
of feeding three million primary school children this year under the ongoing
National Homegrown School Feeding Programme.
The
government in a statement released yesterday by Senior Special Assistant on
media and publicity to the Acting President, Laolu Akande, said the amount was
expended during the school year ending August 2017.
It said the
14 states that have been covered under the programme are Anambra, Enugu, Oyo,
Osun, Ogun, Ebonyi, Zamfara, Delta, Abia, Benue, Plateau, Bauchi, Taraba and
Kaduna.
According to
the statement, 2,827,501 school children are currently benefiting from the
programme, to achieve the Federal Government’s projection to feed over three
million pupils in 2017.
A total of
33,895 cooks have been engaged in the communities where the schools are
located.A breakdown of the payment shows that Anambra received N693,013,300,
while 103,742 children have been fed thus far, with 1,009 cooks paid.Enugu got
N571,877,400 and 108,898 children have been fed so far, with 1,276 cooks paid.
In Oyo
N490,296,800 was released for the
feeding of 107,983 children, with 1.372 cooks engaged.Osun received N1,000,394,888 for the feeding of 151,438
children. A total of 2,863 cooks were engaged in the state.
Similarly,
Ogun got N1,042,217,400 for the feeding of 231,660 school children, while a
total of 2,205 cooks were paid.For Ebonyi, N344,633,100 has been released for
the feeding of 163,137 pupils so far, with a total of 1,453 cooks paid.
In the same
vein, Zamfara received N402,295,600 for the feeding of 107,347 schoolchildren,
while 1,127 cooks were engaged.Delta received N225,896,300 for the feeding of
141,663 pupils with a total of 1,364 cooks engaged in the state.
Abia and
Benue states received a total of N128,763,600 and N337,157,800 respectively to
feed a total of 61,316 and 240,827 pupils. In Abia state, 750 cooks were
engaged, while 3,344 cooks were paid in Benue state.
Similarly,
Plateau and Bauchi states got N133,187,600 and N214,909,101 for the feeding of
a total of 95,134 and 307,013 pupils respectively. Also, 1,418 cooks have so
far been engaged in Plateau State, with 3,261 in Bauchi State.
For Taraba,
N120,284,500 was paid and 171,835 pupils have thus far been fed, with a total
of 2,596 cooks paid.Kaduna State received
N499,985,500 while 835,508 pupils have been fed so far. Also, a total of
9,857 cooks were paid under the programme in the state.More States and primary
school pupils across the country are expected to benefit from the feeding
programme by the time schools reopen in September for a new session.
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