The Vice President Kashim Shettima has said Nigeria may require a yearly budget of N1 trillion to sustain national coverage of the home-grown school feeding programme.
He stated this at the weekend in Abuja during the National Policy Forum on the Institutionalisation and Implementation of Renewed Hope National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, organised by ActionAid Nigeria. Shettima, however, mentioned that the financial obligation of the Federal Government to the programme was not a cost, but a nation-building investment with high economic and security returns.
Represented by the Special Adviser to the President on Economic Affairs, Dr. Tope Fasua, the Vice President said the government was making a promise that no Nigerian child should learn on an empty stomach, and no local farmer should be excluded from the nation’s prosperity.
