 The
 Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday flagged off free 
feeding in the state primary schools in what the governor described as a
 fulfillment of his pledge to provide free education to pupils in Kaduna
 state. According to him, the free feeding programme is expected to 
benefit 1.5 million children in over 4,000 pubic primary schools across 
the state.
The
 Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday flagged off free 
feeding in the state primary schools in what the governor described as a
 fulfillment of his pledge to provide free education to pupils in Kaduna
 state. According to him, the free feeding programme is expected to 
benefit 1.5 million children in over 4,000 pubic primary schools across 
the state.
Meanwhile Social crusaders and activists from Kaduna, have
 released pictures to condemn the School feeding initiative maintaining 
the the program was unnecessary and a charade especially given the state
 of infrastructure decay in the school which should have been first 
addressed.
According to a commenter, he said that government of 
Kaduna should have ’empowered their parents and use the food money to 
equip the class.’ Another activist Zina Dabo said on twitter; “Seriously
 @elrufai do you think what these kids need is propaganda slice of yam 
not chairs? @shehusani @NGRWailers“
According to El-Rufai, the 
programme is directly creating 17,000 jobs for caterers, who in turn 
will employ others to support them. “It is an unprecedented undertaking 
in the state, but one that we solemnly pledge to do during the campaign.
“In
 seeking to take care of our children we are creating jobs, boosting 
demand and expanding people to new skills and hygienic standard, and 
providing extra income.”
The pictures show students in schools 
without furniture; chairs and tables who were seen eating from the 
plates across various primary schools in the state. Photos below:
These
 are the pictures the governor unfortunately doesn't want you to see. 
And it ties in with the typical APC leadership style - Ignore the basic 
essentials you're supposed to provide, and focus on the cosmetic and 
unsustainable political gestures that will only earn you quick and easy 
brownie points from the gullible.
This man couldn't provide desks, 
teachers and laboratory infrastructure, he skipped them all for this 
recurrent expenditure that will do nothing to improve the QUALITY of 
education in those schools.
This was the exact same way a certain 
governor employed Twitter shills and media jesters to whitewash his 
image with endless propaganda for all of 2012, 2013 and 2014, until the 
crash in oil prices exposed him for the wasteful, shortsighted, and 
totally CLUELESS leader he really was ('Oil prices have fallen, so my 
hands are tied. I can't pay your salaries. in the mean time, pray for 
the state. Bye').
And the same thing looks to play out in Kaduna soon.
We are watching
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