The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday described the Federal Government's school feeding programme as 'a big scam. PDP said the school feeding programme even when schools are shut due to the COVID-19 pandemic was a scheme by the 'corrupt All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders and some officials in the Buhari Presidency to siphon a
The Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday described the Federal Government’s school feeding programme as “a big scam.
The party described the use of innocent school children as a cover to steal and funnel not less than N679 million daily to private purses as “sacrilegious, wicked and completely unpardonable.”According to PDP: “While it is clear that the APC-led administration’s school feeding programme had always been a scam, the claims to feed school children even when schools are closed is colossal racketeering taken too far.
“While the PDP has nothing against any transparent effort to provide succor to Nigerians, particularly our children, at this critical time, our party rejects the on-going fraud in which school children, who are in their respective homes, bearing the brunt of the failures of the APC “Nigerians are witnesses to how the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Umar Farouq, has always stammered, makes conflicting pronouncements and points to Mr. President’s speech as a cover each time Nigerians demand details of her humongous spending.
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