No fewer than 833,957 pupils have been enumerated by Federal Government during the ongoing audit of the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in Katsina State.
Alhaji Mustapha Bara’u, NHGSFP Programme Manager in Katsina State disclosed this at the launch of the NHGSFP exercise across 2,777 public primary schools in the State.
Bara’u explained that members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) will assist in validating the data of pupils and cooks engaged in the school feeding programme in the state.
He said: “It is a mandate of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management to validate this data to make sure they see the children and the cooks capture all their data.”
Speaking earlier, Malam Samaila Suleiman, NYSC Schedule Officer for NHGSFP in Katsina State, said the school feeding programme was re-introduced to encourage children roaming the streets to go back to school that such would help in tackling insecurity in the country.
According to him: “President Muhammad Buhari re-introduced this programme to also increase employment opportunities in various localities because many people will be engaged in the exercise which Is aimed at encouraging our local farmers to produce more as the government also patronise their goods for the school feeding programme,” he said.
He urged the Headmasters of benefitting primary schools to study the forms provided for the enumeration so as to avoid any form of a mistake on the forms while filling.
According to him, no fewer than 192 Corps members were recently trained by the NYSC authorities in Katsina State for the enumeration exercise.
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