Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has directed the state’s Commodity, Marketing and Distribution Board to take over the supply of foodstuff for the boarding secondary schools feeding scheme in order to guarantee its quality.
Matawalle gave the directive following his recent unscheduled visit to some boarding public secondary schools in the state where he discovered that the students were fed with poorly processed meals.
This was disposed in a statement by the Special Adviser to the governor on Media, Communication and Public Enlightenment, Zailani Bappa, which was made available to newsmen on Sunday in Gusau.
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The governor who expressed his anger at the development, especially against the food contractor and the management of the affected schools, compelled the feeding officers and school management to eat the same meal fed to the students voweming to take action and closely monitor the scheme.
According Nappa also, the governor insisted that henceforth, only the foodstuff from the Commodity board should be served to the students.
The statement further revealed that the Head of Civil Service, Kabiru Balarabe, on the instruction of the governor, had gone round some of the boarding schools in the state to monitor the level of compliance to the order.
Bappa said the Head of Service had expressed satisfaction with the
process in the schools visited while the students were also happy with
the new system.
