School feeding programme: Why FG Submitted list of vendors to EFCC – Farouq

The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development said the list of all participating vendors in the modified School Feeding Programme will be submitted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Sadiya Farouq, who stated this at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing in Abuja, noted that it was for the purpose of transparency and accountability.
She said the modified school feeding programme was being funded by the Federal Government, implemented by states and facilitated by the ministry.

The minister said it was targeted at heads of households, guardians and caregivers of the pupils, already benefiting from the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP).

She noted that the vendors had been on the programme since inception adding that the ministry had also invited Civil Society Organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations to help with the monitoring of events.

Speaking on the recently-launched NHGSFP Intervention in the FCT, Farouq acknowledged the role of the United Nations World Food Programme in Nigeria in providing technical support.

She noted that the take-home rations worth four thousand two hundred naira per household and were planned as a monthly COVID-19 intervention, for three point one million households in the participating states and to reach the households, they are using the various school registers, which contain addresses of all the pupils and SUBEB databases.