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School feeding: Delta begins biometric data to capture additional 98,000 pupils

According to the Delta Government, biometric data collection for an additional 98,000 students participating in the state's continuing Natio...

Chima Joseph Ugo
Chima Joseph Ugo - Editor-in-chief October 11, 2022
Updated October 11, 2022 at 4:08 PM
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According to the Delta Government, biometric data collection for an additional 98,000 students participating in the state's continuing National Home-Grown School Feeding Program (NHGSFP) has begun.

At a two-day workshop on the updates and guidelines for cooks of the NHGSFP in the state, Dr. Darlington Ijeh, the State Commissioner for Humanitarian and Community Support Services, revealed this on Tuesday in Asaba.

Ijeh claimed that following an appeal, Sadiya Farouq, the minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management, and social development, released an additional 49,000 forms to the state in order to enrol more students in the survey.

Newsmen report that 284,456 pupils are currently benefiting from the programme in the state.

Ijeh urged the cooks to ensure that all eligible pupils in the state were captured without arbitrarily short changing the pupils and the state in general.

He appealed to them to shun the habit of cutting corners and discharge their duties with the fear of God and service to humanity by following the stipulated guidelines.

“If you decide to connive with head master/head mistress by saying that you have cooked and fed our children when in actual fact you have not done that, I will certainly fish you out and your name will be yanked off the payroll.

“The secretaries and NGOs are our eyes and cannot afford to fail the people of the state by not reporting any behaviour that falls short of required standard, because they know what awaits them if they are found wanting,” he said.

The Commissioner disclosed that the Federal Government has implemented the upward review of N70 per plate of a meal per child to N100.

Ijeh also said that the social wellbeing of the people of the state was of a top priority to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and most especially that of our children.

“I am filled with joy that you no longer complain and that gladdens my heart that all of you now smile.

“And I almost shed tears when I received calls of some mothers like you, some fathers like you complaining of being short paid, your kids being short changed, some forms not being complete, pupils not being captured in various schools.

“It gives me great concern, but we are not here to apportion blames. But what we are doing is the right thing,” he said.

Ijeh commended Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa for his visions and commitment to the state in delivering and keeping to his campaign promises to the people of the state.

The Commissioner noted that without the enablement and a coordinated synergy on implementation from the state governor, the programme would have been a mirage in the state.

“All these are being done by the State Governor, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa, and I am only being used by him and he is being used by God and that is why we are able to achieve ll these within few months I have been in office,” he added.

He noted that the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, one of the four components of the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP), was a Federal Government programme.

The meeting attracted local government secretaries and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) as well as cooks under the programme from Delta North Senatorial District.
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