The National Homegrown School Feeding scheme, one of the Social Investment Programmes of the Buhari administration, entered its implementation stage on Thursday with the feeding of primary school pupils in Anambra State.
The Special Assistant on Homegrown School Feeding Programme in the Office of the Vice President, Dotun Adebayo, said in Awka on Thursday that primary school pupils in the state were excited as the feeding started in their schools.
Mr. Adebayo also said the feeding in three schools in Awka — Community Primary School, Awka South, Central School Ameobi, and Central School in Nibo — was witnessed.
“The pupils were excited and enjoyed the meals,” he stated, adding that the cooks in those three schools, among the total 774 already recruited and trained for the feeding programme, served ‘Okpa’ a.k.a Moin-moin garnished with vegetables to the delight of the pupils who took the meals during their break time about noonday.
All together in Anambra State, an estimated 76, 690 pupils in 1050 schools would be served every day of school. The feeding programme caters to pupils from primary 1-3.
Pls,we are not almajeris. We can feed ourselves in anambra state.people are dying everyday on the federal roads in the east. Is it anambra to enugu,enugu to poryharcourt,imostate to portharcourt,owerri to uyo.even in imo state,the roads are nothing to write abt and u re telling me abt feeding in anambra state.what were they eating before.we don’t need ur food biko