Cross River State Government says the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme has increased the enrolment of pupils across the eighteen Local Government Areas of the state.
The Deputy Governor, Professor Ivara Esu, made this known in Calabar when he was receiving the representatives of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Social Welfare, and Disaster Management in his office.
Esu said, Cross River State believed in the programme and has keyed into it from inception.
He said the programme has an influence on the enrolment of school children in the state.
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The Deputy Governor asked the humanitarian ministry team, who were in the state to commence the newly increased enrolment and enumeration exercise to be just and fair on the field.
The team leader of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Sunday Okoh, said the essence of the enumeration exercise, is for Cross River State to benefit from the new presidential approved additional five million beneficiaries of the scheme.
The National Home Grown School Feeding Programme is aimed at feeding over 14 million School children, in a bid to make learning easy and exciting for the pupil.
(Editor: Ifeanyi Mark)
