FG Feeding 282, 529 Pupils Under National Home Grown School Feeding Programme in Zamfara

The minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq has said a total of 282, 529 pupils are currently being fed under the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme in Zamfara state by her ministry.

The Minister also said the scheme was being carried out in 1,759 schools cutting across all the 14 Local Government Areas of the state and giving employment to 2000 cooks.

Speaking during a town hall meeting with the Zamfara State Council of Chiefs Hajiya Sadiya Farouk noted that the COVID-19 Pandemic lockdown, ongoing activities of Armed Bandits and the flooding experienced in North West Region of the country led to the displacement of over 247,000 Persons in Zamfara, Katsina, Sokoto, Kebbi, Kaduna and Niger States.

The minister said “this Town Hall meeting is significant as it will allow people of the state to collectively communicate, identify, articulate and derive solutions to Humanitarian and Developmental challenges that have arisen in Zamfara state from Banditry, extreme weather conditions and the COVID-19 Pandemic”.

While commending Zamfara state government in addressing the challenges of economic vulnerability, the minister said her ministry will continue to partner with the state government to implement Humanitarian, social inclusion and protection measures in the State.

The chairman of the council and emir of Zamfaran Anka, Alhaji Attahiru Ahmad decried the nonchalant attitude of security agents in the fight against banditry. Noting that the trend where security agents only operated in urban centres and highways, the fight against banditry would never be successful.

He stressed that, the fight to be successful, the security agents had to change tactics and be ready to engage the bandits at their various camps.

“We all know what is happening, and where it’s happening, but a situation where security agents only operate at pere-pere level, our people would continue to suffer attacks, the federal government ought to force the security agents to ransack camps of the bandits as a demonstration of seriousness”, he added.

The monarch also tasked the state and federal government on the plight of displaced persons roaming the streets.

He acknowledged multiple presence of security agents but without impact, bandits operate freely on daily basis.
Also in his remarks, the Chairman of Zamfara state council of chiefs and the Emir of Zamfaran Anka, Alhaji Attahiru Muhammed Ahmed called on the Federal Government to come to the Aid of displaced persons and families whose bread winners were killed by Bandits in the State. ENDs