HOME GROWN SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAM: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMMENCES ENUMERATION EXERCISE IN DELTA STATE
BY Rita Daniel
The Home Grown School Feeding program under the federal ministry of humanitarian affairs and disaster management has commenced enumeration of all primary school pupils, teachers and vendors in Delta state.
The purpose of the enumeration exercise is to authenticate the actual number of beneficiaries of the program in the state.
The exercise is being carried out in collaboration with relevant state and federal government bodies which include the NYSC, NOA, SUBEB, Bureau of Statistics, state office of the national social investment education department and a host of other bodies that are stakeholders in the programme.
The enumeration exercise is going to be carried out in all local government of the state and the federation at large.
Speaking with journalist, Hon. Simon Biokoro, secetary of the Home Grown School Feeding programme In Sapele Local government area said that the enumeration exercise has been peaceful and successful so far and that the pupils and vendors have turned up to be captured but that the coppers in Sapele Local government area in the persons of Bassey Ekeimini Sunday and Eigbokhan Naomi Ehi who are the enumerators in Sapele are lacking fund.
Hon. Biokoro commended the effort of the secretary, Sapele Local Education authority, Pastor David Inoaghan for his effort in making sure the exercise goes on smoothly.
In past time, the programme suffered some setbacks due to inadequate statistics of beneficiaries in the state which had made payment not constant and many vendors short paid. All these are the challenges that will be tackled, hence the enumeration exercise.
The minister of the federal ministry of humanitarian and disaster management, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk who innitiated the enumeration exercise has stated that the programme will continue to be funded by the ministry throughout the life span of the current administration, calling on all the official designated for the running of the programme to be proactive in whatever is expected of them for the success of the programme, she said.