The National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme has been reviewed from N70 naira per meal for schoolchildren to N100 naira in Delta State.
The state Commissioner for Humanitarian and Community Support Services, Dr Darlington Ijeh, who stated this in Asaba, frowned on the manner in which the caterers were shortchanged.
 Ijeh, who was sworn in by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as a commissioner on August 2022, vowed to monitor the Federal Government’s programmes for the betterment of the people of the state.
The commissioner, who distributed cooking utensils to cooks, appealed to the caterers to make good morality their guiding principle in the discharge of their duties.
He disclosed further thatnthe school feeding programme was designed to feed pupils from primary 1 to 3 in public schools, adding that the aim was to encourage more school enrolment as well as improve the nutritional meals of the pupils.
