Kaduna Teachers Eating Food Meant For Pupils

School pupils eating during the take-off of Homegrown School Feeding Programme in Ibadan on Monday (30/1/17).
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A Non-Governmental Organisation has alleged that teachers are taking food rations meant for pupils in some schools in Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria.

The School Feeding Field Monitors of the organisation, Connecting Gender for Development (COGEN), made the allegation on Wednesday.

One of its monitors Rachael Musa said the ration do not usually go around.She made this known during a Town Hall Meeting on the Federal Government’s Home grown School Feeding Programme in Kafanchan, Jema’a area of the state.

She also said although every child was supposed to be given an egg once in a week, the eggs do not usually go round because of short supply.

In a similar vein, Monday John, another monitor, alleged that some politicians were collecting money from food vendors on the ground that they were not members of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).

He also said some members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had equally stopped their children from eating the food, saying it could be poisoned.

He described the development as serious, and urged those involved to stop the act so as not to sabotage the programme.