Abeg, my people, wetin dey happen for Jigawa State no be here o! The government don finally waka come out hard as dem don fire and suspend plenty school feeding contractors wey no get sense! Dem don dey accuse dem of fraud, supplying total wrong food wey no fit chop, and even inflating student numbers for boarding schools, na wah!
This matter come after plenty parents and people wey dey watch how dem dey run things come complain, join small-small checks wey officials from Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs carry go schools inside Dutse Local Government Area. The Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs and Special Duties, Auwalu Sankara, call am say dem no go allow anybody shortchange our pikin dem.
Sankara yarn say for Girls Model Boarding School, Kudai, wetin dem see no sweet at all—originally, dem report say 1,008 students dey there, but when dem check, only 681 dey show face! na so dem carry the soup wey dey serve dem chop come discover say e no even fit be food!
On top that one, dem don also terminate the contract of one Alhaji Sule Zai for Government Commercial Secondary School, Dutse, because him bring low-grade rice wey no fit make sense. No be only that one, three other contractors join am; Kamalu Sulaiman, Alhaji Abdullahi Abanderi, and Alhaji Umaru Chamo, na dem dey suspended for not delivering wetin dem promise.
But e no be all wahala; for the School for the Visually Impaired, Limawa, dem find say everything dey okay as the contractor, Adamu Khalid, go still dey carry dem work because him no give them wahala.
sankara no gree joke; him talk say dem go severe any contractor wey dey divert money or no dey do wetin dem suppose do. Dem don tell the suspended contractors make dem return the money wey dem chop for service wey no dey exist, and dem also dey find credible ones to replace the failed ones quick-sharp so pikin dem no go suffer.
You fit imagine say some stakeholders dey ginger the government action; dem dey shout say wetin dem dey do make sense, as long as dem dey focus on making sure our children no suffer for bad food. Na so e be for dis Nigeria wey everybody dey try manage make the best out of bad situation!
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