I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are
coming from the top — the criminally low
Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of
government regulation which must be followed
no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing
Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.
Brigadier Adesope further disclosed that the board spends N9.2 billion monthly for 92,000 military pensioners, adding that he did not
know how the
Federal government came about payment of pensions
from Service Wide Votes instead of the budget.