KADUNA STATE SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME: BETWEEN GOVERNOR EL-RUFA’I AND HIS CRITIQUES! PART(1)

KADUNA STATE SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME: BETWEEN GOVERNOR EL-RUFA’I AND HIS CRITIQUES! 
                         PART(1)
                            By: 
              Nurudeen Dauda 
           26th February,2016
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As a product of ideas Kaduna state government might even make profit from the school feeding programme. Please have the patience and come with me! In my humble opinion leadership requires: Ideas, vision, courage, exposure and experience. With governor El-rufa’i Kaduna state is lucky !There was a report by the Unite Nations Educational Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) which said majority of the children of the Sub Sahara African are suffering from acute  Malnutrition which directly affects both their learning and retention capacities. Children are the future of every society! Going by this report if uncheck we have no future! Also the report of Out of School Children (OOSC) in Nigeria stated that there are 15million OOSC out of which 10million are in Northern Nigeria. These embarrassing figures if not deliberately tackled might be the next sets of recruits to Boko Haram insurgent. 

The government of Kaduna state is driven by ideas among others. information would have informed one that there are “Development partners”, “Donor agencies”, and United Nations agencies like UNICEF& UNESCO etc who are readily available with funds in order to assist the course of education but their funds is usually with conditions. The conditions being governments’ efforts (or equity contribution) toward the sector. There are a lot of “idle funds” under the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs (now Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs) but due to lack of ideas or commitment or both by our previous regimes they could not benefit from those funds. United Nations organization (UNO) advised all developing nations to allocate at least 27% of their annual budget on education.
 
Governments with huge budgetary expenditure on their educational sector stand a better chance to access funds from UNO and other “Donor agencies” in order to complement their efforts. The education sector in Kaduna state 2016 budget got the second largest allocation after works& House ministry. With this Kaduna state might attract a lot of funds from “Development partners” in order to support the programme. As captured by Mahmud Jega our respected Monday columnist, in Daily Trust of February 22, 2016 “… Kaduna state will sustain it…partly because it expects the federal Government to reimburse it for 60% of the amount…”  However, In my understanding Kaduna State might run this programme with the “least cost” possible or even “gain surplus” from it. Is this not a product of ideas?  Come with me please!

Dangote & Bill& Melinda Gates Foundations had in January this year (2016) announced a combined commitment of $100million on annual basis from now to 2020 towards ending Malnutrition in Nigeria. They hope to improve the lives of at least five million families by 2020.They further said in the spirit of our new partnership, we, encourage even more deliberate & significant commitments from the government of Nigeria at all levels to step up investments in nutrition. Dangote said: “Nigeria is home to the highest number of stunted children in Africa and the second highest globally.” He further said, “…almost one in five Nigerian children is acutely malnourished and more than one in three children suffer from stunting. He observed that, the North East & North west with, 23% of malnourished children is the biggest hit & would naturally benefit more than the other regions that has 11% prevalence rate” .He added that,”…11million Nigerian children are malnourished while 1.5 has suffered stunted growth” .Bill gates on the other hand, said: “…nutrition is one of the highest impact investments they can make in Nigeria’s future growth &prosperity. He added that, they  knew that well nourished children are more likely to grow up to be healthy, fend off preventable diseases, achieve more in school and even earn higher income as adults. How many Northern states are qualified to access from this $100million? To the best of my knowledge so far only Kaduna state!  Please come with me in Part (2).

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