POWA Empowers 120 Members In Rivers

As part of her concerted
efforts to reduce the trend of poverty among the police community in Rivers State, the wife of the State Commissioner of Police, Mrs Chinyere Ogun Sakin has empowered 120 women made up of wives and widows of police officers in the state.
The empowerment Programme which came under the auspices of Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) trained, the women in various trade for two weeks in areas of catering, cosmetology, Bead making, general business as well as given House grant to some indigent members to enable them have accommodation of their own.
Speaking at the graduation programme held at the POWA office, Port Harcourt, weekend Mrs Chinyere Ogun Sakin, who is also the chair person of POWA in the state, said the project was aimed at empowering the women economically as well as reduce the rate of poverty among the police families across the state.
Mrs Ogun Sakin averred that the project was also to mobiles their personal potentials to enable them contribute their own quota to the societal development adding that women play a major role in the family development.
She opined that the beneficiaries were chosen because of their conditions and noted that time had come for every woman in the family to be economically assets to assist their husbands in the runing of their homes.
“We can not continue to sit in the barracks doing nothing, time has come for us to assist our husbands economically, and in turns they will love us more and value us”, she stated.  The state POWA chair person used the opportunity to thanked those who had confidence in the project and supported them for the realisation of POWA’s desired towards economic empowerment of their members assuring that she would continue to put smiles on the faces of police officers wives.
She urged the beneficiaries to make proper used of the starter parks provided to them so as to remove their names from the charity and welfare list of the Association adding that a monitoring team would be constructed to assess the level of their ultilisation within the first month of the programme.
Earlier in his speech, the State Commissioner for police represented by the Deputy Commissioner of police, DC Akali Shaba lauded the leadership of POWA for the project assuring them of the continue support of the command to enable them continue to deliver their programmes for the benefits of community.
He further advised the recipients to make good use of the opportunity given to them to better the lots of their various families. Responding on behalf of the recipients, Mrs Constance Mbajunwa thanked the Commissioners wife for the gesture and described the empowerment scheme as the first of its kind in the history of the state Police Command.

L-R: Commissioner of Police, Rivers State, Mr Tunde Ogunsakin;Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Mr Tele Ikuru and chairman of the occasion, Sen. George Sekibo at the first official launch of stop kidnapping campaign in Port Harcourt recently.