Recall that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, during his nationwide broadcast on March 29 said the school feeding programme would not be affected by the lockdown.
In his statement he said; , “Although schools are closed, I have instructed the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to work with State Governments in developing a strategy on how to sustain the school feeding program during this period without compromising our social distancing policies. The Minister will be contacting the affected States and agree on detailed next steps.”
However The National Association of the Parent-Teacher Association disagreed with the Federal Government over the attempt to feed pupils at home during the lockdown period
The President, National Association of Parent-Teachers Association, Mr Haruna Danjuma, in an interview with punch newspaper said it would be difficult to sustain the school feeding programme during the lockdown.
He said, “To us parents, we see the idea of continuing the school feeding programme during the lockdown as a scam because there is no way it will work. Even parents were not carried along; I don’t know whether the headmasters or principals will be the ones searching for the houses of the pupils and be giving them raw foods as they promised.
“I do not know how they got into that conclusion. I believe all those materials will end up in private purses. There is no way it will work, we should stop deceiving ourselves.”,
