Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The Federal Government has said the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme which gulped about N13bn during the COVID-19 lockdown was monitored by third parties, including
the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, the Department of State Services and the World Food Pogramme.
Although some education experts and public analysts have criticised the feeding of pupils at home during the COVID-19 school closure, Adebayo said strategies were adopted to ensure transparency in the process. In the presentation titled, ‘Delivering a transparent food ration distribution,’Adebayo said, “To prevent slides to old habits during the food ration distribution, we have; one, validation of items across all the distribution centres; two, voucher collection process; three, invitation of third party monitors and agencies. These are the WFP, Civil Society Organisations, ICPC, DSS, and others.
“We worked within the existing budget of the programme to come up with a food ration package of a total cost of N4,200 per household on the presumption of an average of three children per household. Our targeted number of households is 3,131,971 households.”
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