Your School Feeding Program Is A Scheme To Cheat The Masses – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Thursday accused the Federal Government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders of using the “school feeding program when schools are shut due to COVID-19 pandemic” to siphon a targeted N13.5 billion public funds to finance their wasteful lifestyles.

The party described “the use of innocent school children as cover to steal and funnel not less than N679 million daily to private purses as sacrilegious, wicked and completely unpardonable.”

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In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP regretted that “while it is clear that the APC-led administration’s school feeding programme had always been a scam, the claims to feed school children even when schools are closed are colossal racketeering taken too far.”

The main opposition said it “rejects the ongoing fraud in which school children, who are in their respective homes bearing the brunt of the failures of the APC administration, are being used as metaphors to divert public funds to a few corrupt individuals in the Buhari presidency.”

It went on: “Nigerians are witnesses to how the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Umar Farouq, had always stammered, made conflicting pronouncements and pointed to Mr. President’s speech as a cover each time Nigerians demanded details of her humongous spending.”