From : Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
800 wives of police officers in Kaduna have become widows over the decades.
The Kaduna State’s Commissioner of Police, CP Umar Muri made the assertion during the annual empowerment programme organized to assist fallen Police Officer’s wives and orphans in the state.
“As it stands today we have nearly eight hundred (800) widows, thus wives of Police Officers killed over the decades, in the State”, Muri said.
Muri added that Kaduna Police Command lost 28 police officers since his assumption of duty as the commissioner, on Jan 6 2020 to date.
He explained that the rationale behind empowering the orphans and widows was to improve their standards of living.
Muri added that “other method of empowerment can be by way of providing employment for our widows and orphans, scholarship for our children, financial support to enable them to start a trade.”
In her remarks, Chairperson of Police Officers Wives Association POWA of Kaduna, Hajiya Aisha Muri urged the beneficiaries of the packages to utilize the resources doled out to them.
