COVID – 19: Bode George faults home feeding for schoolchildren

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Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, has faulted the continuation of National Home Grown School Feeding Programme during the lockdown.

George, in a statement on Sunday in Lagos, said it was through the unity of purpose and collective efforts of all citizens that the virus could be defeated.

He said the pandemic had thrown up serious issues in the economy, leading to hunger in the land with its attending problems.

The PDP chieftain, therefore, called for the provision of stimulus packages and palliatives to salvage the economy and alleviate suffering.

“Pumping money into school feeding programme while the schools are not open is a little absurd.

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“It is a redundant, unworkable palliative. In a nation where there is no standard numbering of houses, how do you get the food to the beneficiaries? This is more than laughable. It is tragic,” he added

He said using the pandemic to play unnecessary partisan politics or stoke sectarian animosity would not do the nation any good.

George said the pandemic was about the survival of the nation, urging leaders and citizens to embrace a new nationalistic front to tackle the problem.

“We must never reduce this obvious national challenge to partisan feud. This is beyond section triumphalism or sectarian animosity.

“It is about the collective survival of our nation. Let us act by coming together, by discarding old divisions, and embracing a new nationalistic front that can hopefully salvage our country from this pandemic.

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