Since the
commencement of the Federal government-sponsored School Feeding Programme in
Cross River State, pupils of Sacred Heart Primary School, Buanchor, Boki are
yet to be fed.
This is because one FLORENCE OBIOCHI BIKOM ABANG, the supposed Vendor
assigned to the school is yet to show up.
Investigations reveal that, contrary to the provision that a food
vendor should be sourced from the locality where a school is located, this
“ghost” Vendor, allegedly sponsored by a politician, was posted from another
political ward entirely. In fact, no one in the whole Buanchor community knows
this name.
Most worrisome is the finding that, even as the children
are yet to start benefiting from the programme, the supposed Vendor’s bank
account is being credited monthly for services not rendered.
Besides the reported importation of stale fried chicken
from far away Akwa Ibom State, this is another dimension of the clear effort by
some unscrupulous individuals to sabotage the good intentions of the federal
government. This is annoying.
Pupils of SACRED HEART PRIMARY SCHOOL, BUANCHOR, deaserve
too to be fed. They must not be left out of this novel programme.
There may be other ghost vendors elsewhere. This is
therefore calling on the appropriate authorities to urgently do the needful!
