The Federal Government Primary School Feeding Programme in Zamfara has dropped 50 prospective food vendors because of a fraudulent behaviour.
The Programme Manager in Zamfara, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar, made the disclosure during an interview with newsmen in Gusau on Thursday.
He said that under the programme, every selected woman food vendor was expected to register at one centre where she would be engaged to provide a meal per day for 100 pupils in primary one to primary three in a public school.
The manager, however, said that the affected vendors were discovered to have carried out multiple registrations at different wards.
He explained that they were detected by the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System which tracks every bank account holder in the country.
He said part of the mandate of the programme was to give as many women as possible a chance to earn a living and added that the action of the affected women would have denied many others the opportunity to benefit.
Abubakar said Zamfara was the only state in the Northwest that had accessed the fund, adding that the programme had disbursed N188 millio