By Faith Yahaya, Abuja
Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Minister Sadiya Farouq has kick-started the verification of beneficiaries of the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in Kogi State.
She said the verification was a prelude to having a database of the beneficiaries and to scale up the number of beneficiaries from the current 9 million pupils to 15 million pupils by 2023, in line with the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The minister explained that verifying the number of beneficiaries of the programme and updating their records would guarantee effectiveness, transparency and accountability.
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In a statement by her ministry yesterday in Abuja, Hajia Farouq, who spoke through the ministry’s Deputy Director in charge of Internal Audit, Patience Achor, said: “Over 9 million pupils benefit from one free nutritious meal a day nationwide. Now, we have the mandate to reach an additional 5 million pupils by 2023.
“With over 100,000 cooks employed, and more than 100,000 smallholder farmers participating in this value chain, the NHGSFP is a serious potential for socio-economic development and it needs to be strengthened, scaled up and sustained nationwide.”
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