BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto –
The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, has began documentation and training of 46 cooks for the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme in Sokoto.
The participating cooks who were drawn two each from the 23 LGAs of Sokoto State were trained on personal, environmental and cooking hygiene.
In his opening remarks, Alhaji Muhammad Sambo Gusau, a Deputy Director with the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, commended the Federal Government for initiating the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP).
According to him, proper documentation and training for the cooks in the NHGSFP has now become very crucial considering its massive benefits.
In his charge to the participants, Hon Hayatu Tafida, Special Adviser to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal on Social Investment, appealed to selected participants to endeavour to step down the training in their respective local governments. .
Hon. Tafida, who admonished them not to think they are better than others to have been selected, said they were only being favoured amongst many to help step down the training.
On his part, the representative of the 23 LG Education Secretary, Lema Balarabe Binaci who spoke on behalf of Hon Altine Shehu Kajiji, the Chairman of SUBEB, urged participants to ask questions that will enable them better understand what they are being taught.
Binaci noted that the gains of the NHGSFP in Sokoto like most other states across the federation include massive enrollment and retention. He therefore, prayed that the policy goes beyond this administration because it has potential for pulling children out of illiteracy.
On hIs part, The Sokoto State Programme Manager of NHGSFP, Hon Abubakar Musa Girkau, said nationwide documentation and training of cooks on programme was a welcome development in the state.
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