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Uproar Over Looting Of School Feeding Funds

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September 29, 2020

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By Ayodele Oluwafemi

Harsh reactions have trailed the report that N2.67billion meant for the school feeding programme was discovered to have been diverted in private accounts.

Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), on Monday, said the commission discovered that part of the N2.67billion was diverted to private accounts.

Reacting to the alleged corruption scandal, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq via statement said her ministry was not in charge of the school feeding to Federal Government Colleges but that of the Home Grown School Feeding, which is one of its Social Investment Programmes.

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She thus dared the ICPC to name the official involved.

Many Nigerians have taken to the microblogging platform, Twitter to bemoan the level of corruption under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, despite the administration’s postures of fighting corruption.

Nigerians are calling on Farouq and other officials involved in the school feeding programmes to publish the names of the primary schools that have benefitted from the programme.

See reactions:

Minister Sadiya, now that you've asked ICPC to name the official who embezzled N2.6B school feeding money, I, Great Oracle, active citizen, demand you name the select primary schools you disbursed money to during the lockdown pic.twitter.com/w41ODlN76X
— Great Oracle (@AbdulMahmud01) September 29, 2020

ICPC says up to N2.67 billion meant for school feeding during lockdown are in personal bank accounts. We must find a way to jail Buhari after 2023.

These were the clowns that said PDP was corrupt.
— Comrade Deji Adeyanju (@adeyanjudeji) September 28, 2020

124,589 households fed in Lagos, Ogun and FCT in the Home Grown School Feeding Programme between May and July during lockdown

First ever online school feeding in history

₦2.7 billion school feeding funds found in private accounts — ICPC

There is rice in Kano

Yahoo yahoo
— nafeeu (@nafeezi) September 28, 2020

The ICPC said it traced N2.67bn earmarked for the feeding of students of Federal Government Colleges during the lockdown (when they were not in school) to private accounts..The day they strip that hajiya naked,what they will find can fund a whole state budget.
— Umar Sa'ad Hassan?? (@Alaye_100) September 29, 2020

The recent ICPC discovery of N2.67 billion school feeding money looted and stashed into private accounts will be a child's play, when the APC are removed from power.We will only know the full extend of the looting of resources when they are gone.
— chijioke, Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering(Affidavit). (@Ekwulu) September 28, 2020

You see what we are say? Now N2.67bn school feeding found in private account:ICPC. Is like after Buhari govt finish his govt will be the worst corrupt govt. The worst part of it is if the public draw Buhari attention to all these thieves called ministers,Buhari don't care at all.
— Abubakar A Aliyu (@AbubakarAAliyu7) September 29, 2020

Nigerians please read this slowly ?

N2.67billion school feeding fund found in private account – ICPC

This is more than enough reason to cause outrage. Do we still have a president? #NotYetIndependent
— Miz Cazorla (@MizCazorla1) September 28, 2020

We Discovered N2.67bn COVID-19 School Feeding Money In Personal Accounts —ICPC

Yahoo-girl… minister of scamitarian and others.
— Grace John❤ (@onyiforlife) September 28, 2020

1.On #CruxoftheMatter today, we are looking at the funds discovered by ICPC.The agency also found over N2.5b diverted by a deceased worker with the ministry of agriculture, noting that 18 buildings, 12 business premises and 25 plots of land, were also recovered in the ministry. pic.twitter.com/gFJEKCi3yR
— Thereachfm1049 (@thereachfm1049) September 29, 2020

#Nigeria's Minister for humanitarian disaster claims he spent billions on school feeding when kids were out of school on #Lockdown. Now, it turns out she may have bn providing cover for trousering of all that money & this may be only a tip of the iceberghttps://t.co/wAoEHHatIE
— Chidi Odinkalu (@ChidiOdinkalu) September 28, 2020

N2.67bn school feeding funds found in private accounts – ICPC.

HushMama! ?
— Ayemojubar ? (@ayemojubar) September 28, 2020

? ICPC discovered N2.67bn meant for the school feeding programme in private accounts and also found N2.5bn diverted by a deceased worker in a private account.

Sadiya Umar Farouq should come and show us workings and explain this to us.
— Tall Dark Local Man (@ProjectStev) September 29, 2020

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Uproar Over Looting Of School Feeding Funds

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