School feeding probe launched

Local food products at the Maruranau School Kitchen. (Ministry of Education photo)

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand yesterday announced that a country-wide investigation of the national school feeding programme is underway after students of Kato Primary School, in Region Eight, were made to physically transport logs to be used as firewood to cook their meals.

Manickchand told a news conference that the exploitation of the children, which occurred in the absence of the school’s headmistress,