Okechukwu NnodimThe National Association of Nigerian Students on Friday said it would mobilise its members for a nationwide protest if the Federal Government continued its school feeding programme dur
ing school closure occasioned by of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Akpan said the source of the proposed N697m to be spent daily, amounting to N13.5bn a month on the programme, must be queried, stressing that the decision was “reckless spending.” “We do not only condemn this, we also frown at any attempt by some people to further loot our national treasury. The continuation of the school feeding programme at this period that schools are closed is sheer fraud.
Explaining why the Federal Government went ahead with the programme despite the lockdown, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, urged Nigerians to support the scheme.
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