BAUCHI GOVERNMENT SACKS PRINCIPAL FOR UNDERFEEDING STUDENTS
The Commissioner announced that, a new Principal had been appointed by the Ministry for the school, stating that, a robust high-tech arrangement for monitoring of students’ meals along with designated resident food police would soon be deployed to all boarding secondary schools in the state.
Penpushing also reports that, the Commissioner declared that the era of starving boarding students will become history in the State, just as the Governor, Bala Mohammed, pointed out that in view of the fact that Bauchi has the most out of school children in Nigeria, his administration decided to key into all programmes geared towards addressing the situation.
The Federal Government’s National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) according to a report now feeds over 9.8 million pupils daily in 32 States, while under the project, school children in over 53,000 public primary schools are fed with one free, nutritious meal a day, while it has engaged over 106,000 cooks in the 32 states.
Penpushing reports that, the programme helped to increase enrolment rates of pupils in the 32 States, currently partaking in the programme, and also effectively tackling early year malnutrition and the problem of stunting while improving the cognitive skills of children.
The programme in another way has witnessed a lot of corrupt practices from the cooks to the school authorities’ payment hitches, insufficient cooks, others, while it also recalled that the Bauchi State Government in July pledged to provide the required logistics support for the sustenance of the Programme in the State.
