The Emir of Maru in Zamfara state, Alhaji Abubakar Maigari has lauded the Federal Government for initiating the National Home Grown Feeding Programme for primary schools.
Alhaji Abubakar Maigari made the commendation while receiving officials from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, who paid him a courtesy visit in his palace.
He said the programme had increased pupils’ enrollment in schools significantly.
The traditional ruler urged all stakeholders to support the programme to ensure its sustainability and success.
“The teachers and food vendors as well as other officials in charge of feeding the children should ensure justice and fairness,” he added.
Earlier, the Assistant Legal Adviser of the ministry, Malam Ibrahim Modibbo, who led the officials to the palace, said the visit was part of the validation of the ongoing enumeration exercise of the programme taking place across Zamfara State.
Ibrahim Modibbo noted that the reason for the enumeration exercise was to address challenges of the programme; “we are satisfied with what we saw in the centers so far visited.
“We noticed inadequate number of pupils in some schools and we observed that the feeding has stopped since return of schools after the COVID-19 pandemic.
SANI HARUNA Zamfara
