Kebbi: Police officers’ wives, widows get new business shops

From Ahmed Idris Birnin Kebbi

The Kebbi State Police Officers Wives Association (POWA), has commissioned newly constructed businesses shops to support the police officers’ wives and widows in the state.
Commissioning the shops yesterday while delivering her speech the Chairperson of the Association, Hajiya Maryam Muhammad, said that the aims and objective was to empowere the lives of the police women widow, serving officers and their children.
“This project is meant for supporting the police officers’ wives, especially the children and widows; to become entrepreneurs,” she added.
She said further that the initiative was actualised by the support the POWA in the state received from the National President of the Association and Wife to the Inspector-General of Police.
“The IGP, Muhammad Adamu and his wife, share the vision in showing love to their personnel and keep on encouraging the POWA chairpersons of each state command to look inward on how best to support police officers’ wives on entrepreneurship,” she added.
She commended the State Commissioner of Police in the state, Alhaji Garba Muhammad, for the supporting them and Encouragement while urged the beneficiaries of the shops to utilise them well and make the facilities become their sources of income that would improve on their means of livelihood.