Funds allocated for students’ feeding in 104 unity schools have been cut in the 2012 budget, Education Minister Professor Ruqayattu Ahmed Rufa’i has said.
The minister said the shortfall followed the reduction in the overhead costs and meal subsidy allocations of the schools. She said the problem would create operational challenges in feeding the students.
She stated this when the Senate Committee on Education led by Senator Uche Chukwumerije visited the Federal Ministry of Education on oversight functions.
The minister said the removal of subsidies on diesel and gasoline was also biting hard on the unity schools and as a result, the ministry was proposing an increase from N50 per meal to N450.
Ruqayyatu said FGC Buni-Yadi which in 2011 had N91, 578,418 as meal subsidy and overhead cost was reduced to N30, 440,260 in the 2012 budget.
Other colleges adversely affected by the cuts include: FGC Okigwe, FSC Sokoto, FGGC Bauchi, FGC Enugu, FGC Ikot-Obio-Itong, FGC Langtang and FSTC Jalingo.
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