Pupils in kaduna state now abandons school immediately after getting their free meal offered them by the government.they have developed the habit of leaving school immediately under the guise of going to get water after the meal.
This was disclosed by the state commissioner of Education Science and Technology who said the development is disturbing.he appealed to parent to make such children don't return home until after school so as not to defeat the aim of the program which was designed to encourage enrollment,attendance and retention.
He said: “The main goal of the school feeding programme is to attract out-of-school children to school and keep them in class for them to acquire education and better their lives.
“We will not allow a situation where children will just come to school and leave the moment they finished eating their meals; if it is about water, we have already asked parents to provide water for their children.
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