President William Ruto’s Economic Advisor, David Ndii has come out to explain why the government decided to stop the school feeding program after complains from kenyans.
Speaking through his social media platform, Ndii has said that the school feeding program has been scrapped off because it was not allocated any funding in the 2024/25 financial year budget.
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According to David Ndii, the reason why the feeding program has been allocated zero budget is that previously, the program was being handled by an independent entity within the Ministry of Education.
The entity, National Council for Nomadic Education in Kenya (NACONEK) was created to meet the needs of learners in nomadic areas to empower them to go to school. Therefore, it’s the entity that has been handling the school feeding program.
However, Ndii claims that the entity went out of its mandate thus justifying the zero budgetary allocation to the program. Therefore, NACONEK will only continue empowering marginalised communities through other avenues.
“NACONEK is a generous benefactor to other worthy causes, for example, it has recently gifted Nairobi School a Ksh100 million state-of-the-art kitchen.”
Answering how the NACONEK will work on marginalised areas with zero budgetary allocation, Ndii noted that the program in marginalised areas will be funded through the Ministry of East African Community, Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs), and Regional Development.
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This comes after kenyans raised concersn after the government announced that the school feeding program will be discontinued marking an end to a program that was started in 1980 benefitting 2.6 Million learners annually.