As part of efforts to show love among the widows of late police officers, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, CP Olatunji Disu has reached out to over 200 widows of late police officers in the State with food items, rice, and an undisclosed amount of money to each of them.
Disu also expressed the readiness of the State police command to always honour wives of the late police officers all time considering the roles of their late husbands played in the fight for a better Rivers State while alive.
He stated this during a special event organized by the command leadership to honour and celebrate the wives of the late Police Officers wives (LAPOWA) as part of the Valentine’s Day Celebration, stressing that the widows represent the interest of the police in taking care of the children left behind by their late husband.
He said: “Today we are here to celebrate the departed ones and to express our love and gratitude to you all. Look at here, over 200 and where are your husbands they died fighting for the peace and unity of the State. They died in the line of duty.
“We remember you and show you love and pray the Almighty God to remember them because they all died in fighting for the nation we remember you always you are the ones taking care of the children and you have shame our detractors who said Police children cannot be better, our children are doing well thank you all.
“I and my management team we have instructed our Dpo’s to always support and give you the needed protections wherever you are for the sake of encouraging them in ensuring that those that late officers left behind feel loved.”
Disu averred that the event was an initiative of the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun who directed that the late Police Officers Wives should be carried along and that inform the decision of celebrations today
The leader of Late Police Officers Wives (LAPOWA)Josephine Alukabu in emotion-laden words says this was the first of its kind where widows are celebrated and remembered.
As one of the beneficiaries, she expressed gratitude to the State Commissioner of Police, adding that the gesture had impacted greatly on them and prayed to God to keep the Commissioner and his men for greater achievement.
