Kwara NSCDC Officers’ Wives Donate Cash, Others To Families Of Late Officers
*As Commandant Assures Bereaved Families of Continued Support.
By Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin
The Kwara State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Makinde Iskil Ayinla, has reiterated the corps’ continued support to the families of officers and men who lost their lives or suffered permanent injuries during the course of serving their father’s land.
The Commandant stated this during an empowerment programme organised for the widows and families of the dead officers by the Civil Defence Officers Wives Association (CIDOWA) at the State Command’s headquarters in Ilorin on Wednesday.
“One of the priorities of the Commandant General of the Corps, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, is to ensure adequate welfare for the families of the officers who died or sustained injuries or suffered permanent disability during the course of serving their fatherland and he has enjoined state commandants and their wives to follow suit, hence the reason while we are here today is to support you (the widows) in our own little way”, the Commandant explained.
He saluted the widows and other family members of the departed officers for maintaining good image of their respective families even in the absence of their bread winners, adding that the Corps would not relent in its determination to regularly reach out to them.
In her goodwill message, the chairperson of Kwara State CIDOWA and wife of the Commandant, Mrs S.A Makinde, stated that the civil defence officers wives association is on the same page with the state Commandant on the need to take the welfare of the bereaved families with utmost concern.
According to the spokesman of the NSCDC in Kwara State Babawale Zaid Afolabi, selected widows were given N75,000 each by CIDOWA for them to start a business while other items were distributed to the families present. Among the beneficiaries are Mrs Olarinoye Wasiu Azeez, Mrs Grace Ajisafe, Mrs Yusuf Taye and Mrs Awoniyi Ruth among others.
In a lecture delivered during the programme titled “Coping With Stress at Home”, the lecturer Mrs Afolayan enjoined officers and men of the corps to give utmost priority to their health and to always find time to rest and unwind.