Home Grown School Feeding programme and scam accusation, by Afusat Akande

On May 6, 2020, Sadiya Umar Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, gave a briefing at the daily media interaction of the Presidential Task Force. During her briefing she tried to bring her audience up to speed with activities and interventions in her ministry since her last briefing on May 1, 2020. Her opening salvo caught people’s attention: “In the time since I was here last, we have made progress on the overhauled Home Grown School Feeding Programme and sensitization has already begun in the…