The last is yet to be heard about the alleged distribution of expired milk by the Ekiti State Government to its public schools’ pupils, FEMI MAKINDE writes.

The school feeding programme initiated by the administration of Governor Segun Oni of Ekiti State to further boost enrolment in the state has come under heavy criticism from the main opposition party in the state

The gesture of providing a meal of cocoa drink and an egg a day to each of the pupils in public primary and junior secondary schools in the state is now under intense criticisms by the Action Congress as the party accused the Oni administration of deliberately feeding thousands of pupils from poor families with expired milk.

The state government had given more than enough sachets of MILCOW pineapple milk to thousands of its pupils. The unusual gift, which was distributed in large quantity in March, caught the attention of many curious parents who were suspicious of the gesture. The parents eventually discovered that the milk, which was packaged by a Lagos-based company, had expired before they were distributed to the children on order of the state government.

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