Following the online appearance of a video showing students in a northern school being served meals on a piece of paper, Nigerians have flocked to social media to criticize the federal government.
The students were seen in a Voice of America report eating meals from a piece of paper as part of the government’s school feeding program.
The National Home-Grown School Feeding Programs (NHGSFP) are funded by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, according to information released by the federal government in April 2022. (MHADMSD).
This information was provided by Dr. Umar Bindir, the National Coordinator for the National Social Investment Program (NSIP), during a two-day stakeholders consultation workshop in Abuja on the creation of a national policy for the NHGSFP.
Nigerians, however, voiced displeasure over the money spent and the subpar food provided to the children when the video went viral.
@ElemSunny wrote; Have you seen this VOA Hausa video? Is it the school feeding program? Serving our children food on sheet of paper??? Unbelievable!
@n6oflife6; I have NEVER SUPPORTED this Program. The amount of billions sunk into this Sham would have done a lot for our Economy. Empowering their parents to take care of them better. 😢
@Iamteetuz; And some people are still in support of this yeye party
@emmarnoel; Govt may have actually released adequate funds for this without proper supervision.
@PeterObi was able to prevent this by cutting off all the transit points and sending money’s directly from SUBEB to the schools and asked the principals and parents to manage it.
@HafeezMajek; @nassnigeria @HouseNGR Billions spent on school feeding Nigerian children ehi,.., would any of you prefer to be served food on a piece of paper?
@SegunOladejo_; Yet they’ve sent billions of Naira on school feeding program
@BolanleOdu; Any time Osibanjo say this thing, I get angry. This is one of the policies his numerous betrothed also claims he championed. Massive fraud just like the vote buying exercise that they claimed was trader moni.
