Sabotage: Officials Steal 200 Crates of Eggs, Tubers of Yam Meant for School Feeding Programme in Niger

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The Niger State Government has uncovered another plot to sabotage the Home Grown School feeding programme.

The federal government had about three months ago sacked two top officials of the programme for similar sabotage and directed that the scheme be transferred to the Ministry of Women Affairs.

The programme was only reorganised and restarted two weeks ago following the initial sabotage.

This time, an official of the School Feeding Programme had been caught stealing 200 crates of eggs meant for pupils in schools in Bosso Local Government Area of the state.

Another desk officer also in the same local government area was caught diverting several tubers of yams meant for the feeding of the pupils.

The police and officials of the State Security Service (SSS) had been called into the matter resulting in the arrest of the suspects.

The security officials were also made to lecture all the ad hoc staff involved in the school feeding programme on the implication of their tampering with the items meant for feeding of the pupils.

The state Commissioner for Women Affairs, and Coordinator of the programme, Mrs. Amina Musa, confirmed the development on Thursday while addressing journalists after a meeting of the state executive council in Minna last Wednesday evening.

Mrs. Musa who declined to give the names of those concerned, however, confirmed  that the persons involved had been reported to the SSS for further action.

The commissioner disclosed that over 560,499 pupils were benefiting  from the programme in the state while 4,929 food vendors were engaged, adding that N392million was allocated to the state by the presidency for the first 10 days of the exercise.

Musa said the free feeding programme had led to increase in school enrolment of pupils in the state but did not say the new enrolment figure.

She also disclosed that the programme had  boosted the economic empowerment of farmers and women in the state due to the patronage of  agricultural products.



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