The committees were also to ensure that the programme is implemented across the 36 states in the country. The resolve followed a motion sponsored by Honourable Bode Ayorinde on the need to appraise the modalities for the implementation of the SIP.
‎Recalling that the government had claimed that as at April this year that N41.714 billion has been spent on the programme, Ayorinde stated that its impact has not been felt substantially across the country, two years after its commencement.
He noted that during the last general elections, the All Progressives Congress, APC, promised that if elected its government would run the SIP which consists of a school feeding programme that will cover about 5.5 million primary school pupils and job creation for 500,000 graduates who will be paid N30,000 each.
He said the programme also included N5,000 monthly Conditional Cash Transfer for one million recipients and provision of loan facility, ranging from N10,000 to N10,0000, for 1.66 million people, under its Enterprise Promotion Programme.
The lawmaker, however, expressed fear that only seven states have been covered in the School Feeding Programme, stressing that his constituency in Ondo State has not benefitted from any aspect of the programme.
Contributing to the debate, Ossai Ossai, Abdulrasaq Namdas and Sergius Ogun disclosed that the programme is not running in their respective states and urged the federal government to ensure that the SIP are implemented in the 36 states of the federation for the sake of fairness and equity.
They however called for an investigation into the funds so far spent on the programme, and the criteria for selecting the beneficiaries.
The motion scaled through when the Speaker, Honourable Yakubu Dogara who presided over the session put it to voice vote.
The House also called on the federal government to implement one element of the programme at a time.
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