Anambra Community gets POWA skills acquisition centre

By  Joy Mbachi

The President of the Police Officers Wives Association (POWA), Hajiya Hajara Usman Alkali Baba, has commissioned the newly-built Police Officers Wives Association Skills Acquisition Center in Ukpo, Dunukofia Local Government, Anambra.

The initiative is one of the agenda and progressive reforms of Hajiya Usman as the 21st President of POWA, since assumption of office.

The information is contained in a press statement released to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Saturday by DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, Police Public Relation Officer, Anambra State Police Command.

The statement said that similar centres have been built and commissioned in Abuja, and Rivers State while that of Benue State is still ongoing.

Ikenga said that the projects were designed to enhance welfare of the families of Police officers in the country by engaging their wives to acquire skills and knowledge that will bring funds to support their respective families.

“These skills include fashion design, catering, baking, hair and wig making, headgear styling/design and many others,” he stated.

The statement disclosed that POWA President assured that participants at the end of every training session would be given necessary tools and empowerment materials for the successful take-off on skills they had acquired.

Mrs Ikemi Echeng, the POWA Chairperson in Anambra, commended the efforts of their National President and urged her to ensure welfare of the officers’ wives in the state.

Echeng described the gesture as a development that will spur officers’ wives in Anambra to greatness while discharging their statutory duties.

She said that with the assurance, their welfare is of paramount importance to the leadership of the Force, vowing that the officers’ wives in Anambra would perform optimally in their chosen areas of work.

The statement noted that the event attracted cash donations by dignitaries in attendance which included the representative of the major sponsors of the project, Prince Arthur Eze, Dr Okechukwu Eze, the traditional Ruler of Ukpo community, Igwe Robert Eze, Sen. Ifeanyi Uba, representing Anambra South Senatorial Constituency, and the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Paul University, Prof Chinenyere Okunna.

Also the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 13, AIG Tony Olofu, Commissioner of Police Anambra State Police Command, CP Echeng Echeng, and other dignitaries also graced the occasion.

(NAN)