Home Grown School Feeding Programme is not a ‘Scam’ vanguardnews
By Afusat Akande
One of the comments from the handle @inkredible_ caught my attention for its sheer vitriol: “Your love for projects that can’t be tracked and evaluated accurately is overwhelming. U obviously want to name a huge figure that can’t be trailed nor tracked with accuracy. The evil in the heart of the rulers of Nigeria is unimaginable.”
What is a minister to do, disobey a directive from the President? Secondly, this is not something the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development woke up one morning and decided to undertake.
Going further in traducing the minister, the twitter user wrote: “U obviously want to name a huge figure that can’t be trailed nor tracked with accuracy.” The figure is inaccurate because, though the ministry has not provided a figure, quick arithmetic will show that if each Take-Home Ration is worth N4,200, then 3,131,971 rations will cost N13,154,278,200 for the intervention excluding logistics costs. And the Vanguard storey gave the wrong premise because the programme is not a daily programme costing N679m per day. It is, as Sadiya Farouq, noted at the PTF briefing on Covid-19 Intervention.
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