The Lagos State Police Command on Monday denied media report that it Order Senior Officers to Pay N6,000 Each As ‘2025 POWA Dues’ to Association Under IGP Egbetokun’s Wife.
The Command categorically refute the report in its entirely and set the records straight.
A statement released today by Benjamin Hundeyin, Lagos command, Police Public Relations Officer, further reads: “There was no any time in the past or present that POWA dues were ordered to be paid to the IGP’s Wife who is the POWA President or her office as mischievously stated in the report. The story is extremely malicious, outrightly false, unfounded and a figment of imagination of an uneducated writer.
”The Command wishes to clarify further that Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) is a non-governmental organization which is the umbrella body of all Police Officers’ Wives throughout the Country, set up to alleviate the welfare condition of wives of police officers and their families from inception of the Nigeria Police Force.
“The organization as an NGO with a lot of social responsibilities that bother in catering for better welfare of police wives and their family members, empowerment for the wives, children and wards of deceased police officers who paid supreme price in the service of our fatherland. And families of other police officers who died in active service are solely funded from the dues and donations from police officers throughout the country from their salaries voluntarily paid by such officers in Lagos State Police Command to POWA account in the state.
“It is incumbent on the Command to educate the unschooled writer of this mischievous story that POWA dues are voluntary and payable by only Senior Police Officers from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and above including the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State upon joining the Nigeria Police Force and posted to State Commands or any duty posts where they are serving. It is also pertinent to state that the POWA dues are paid into POWA account domiciled in Lagos State and also expended in the State Command for the benefit of members and not to POWA President or her office in Abuja.
“Members of the public are hereby enjoined to disregard this story from an hope-lost and morally repugnant freelancer as completely false and mischievous.
The statement further “ implored the media not to allow their esteemed publication to be used to misinform the public or cast aspersions on the hard-earned integrity and highly respected personality that have been doing her best to alleviate and better the lives of wives of Police Officers, including police widows and their families across the Country.”
