Edo to adopt school feeding programme

The Edo state Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki says his administration will adopt the Federal Government’s Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP). The governor disclosed this at the HGSFP Workshop in Benin. According to him, the benefits of the programme outweighed the promotion of basic education and that it was one of the key policies that […]

The Edo state Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki says his administration will adopt the Federal Government’s Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP).

The governor disclosed this at the HGSFP Workshop in Benin.

According to him, the benefits of the programme outweighed the promotion of basic education and that it was one of the key policies that the state would prioritise and adopt.  

“The only reason we are yet to adopt the programme is because we were trying to understand how it would work without hitches. This is a programme we are committed to and we will do everything to make it work because we believe in it,”  he said.

 The governor said that the state would make funds available to extend the programme to accommodate pupils in primary four and six.  

He said: “When children are hungry, their attention and retentiveness reduces and this makes the learning process tedious, but when they are mindful that they will be given a meal in school, they will like to go to school to learn."