Nasarawa Gives N1m Cheque Each To Widows Of Slain Policemen

The Nasarawa State Government on Monday issued cheques of N1 million each to the widows of policemen killed at Alakyo, Lafia Local Government Area by the Ombatse militia group.

Presenting the cheques to the widows at the State Police Command in Lafia, Governor Umaru Al-Makura commiserated with them over the loss.

He said the money was only meant to help augment the burial rites of their late husbands.

Mr. Al-Makura, represented by Zainab Abdulmumin, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), urged the women to take the demise of their spouses in good fate and take solace in God.

He said the government was doing its best to ensure that the perpetrators of the “heinous ” crime were brought to justice.

The widows of late Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Momoh; and Deputy Superintendent of Police, Aliyu Zing, received N3 million and N1.5 million respectively.

Mr. Momoh led the operation during which over 40 police officers were killed.

The Assistant Inspector General of Police in Zone 4, Michael Zuokumor, announced that the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, had approved N1 million each for families of the dead officers.

He said the approval was given while the Group Life Insurance packages of the officers were being worked out.

Mr. Zuokumor appealed to the women to be strong for their children, adding that no amount of grieving and sorrowing would bring their husbands back.

“I am assuring you all that God will take over your welfare. The ultimate price your husbands have paid for the country will never go unrewarded,” Zuokumor added.

He reiterated the commitment of the police high command to bring the perpetrators to justice.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of welfare at the Force Headquarters, Abiodun Ige, said she was in the state to facilitate the disbursement of the immediate police intervention to them.

She said the money being disbursed to them was for their children and cautioned them against diverting it to other uses.

Ms. Ige, while praying God to grant the women the fortitude to bear the losses, said “human beings have limitation but only God can provide the succour you need now”.

She appealed to the women not to take laws into their hands by continuously blocking the Akwanga-Lafia Road.

She urged them to channel their grievances and demands through appropriate authority for further action.

The widows, clad in their late husbands’ uniforms, held green leaves while wailing.

Mary Levis, on behalf of the widows, appealed to the Federal Government to offer scholarship to the children of the late policemen up to tertiary level.

She also appealed to the government to consider pension benefits for the dead officers who were yet to attain pensionable age in service, given the circumstance of their death.

Similarly, a sibling of one of the late officers, Mathew Onoja, appealed to the police to simplify the process of payment of the officers’ entitlements.

“We are begging the police authority not to subject the widows and children of the late policemen to untold hardship in pursuing the payment of their entitlements.

“Most of them will not be able to withstand a rigorous process,” he said.

(NAN)

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May God rewards him

In Nigeria, anything can happen!

By the way, am I the 1st to comment? If yes good otherwise I willl have to try harder.

Nice gesture 4rm our government

May God give them the grace to bear this loss..

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Although the money is not enough,bt it will go along way in assisting d families left behind

damn!! i guess nassarawa or ekiti state is assumed to be the poorest state in naija.no wonder the paltry amount given by the Govt.

The people that are saying God belss him, this is the duty of the state,they are supposed to do this, maybe if they had insured public workers, they wouldn't have to pay this much funds, but you know, the way government likes to do things

Mr. Zuokumor appealed to the women to be strong for their children, adding that no amount of grieving and sorrowing would bring their husbands back.

“I am assuring you all that God will take over your welfare. The ultimate price your husbands have paid for the country will never go unrewarded,” Zuokumor added.

Lol, he is making this assurance on the basis of his 'one-on-one' relationship with the Almighty bah?

smothly: May God rewards him

It is a state money and not his personal money.
However, it is a nice gesture.

GeneralJ: The people that are saying God belss him, this is the duty of the state,they are supposed to do this, maybe if they had insured public workers, they wouldn't have to pay this much funds, but you know, the way government likes to do things

its not their duty.the police is controlled and paid by the federal goverment.state government's arent supposed to compensate.the NPF has life insurance schemes for their officers

Do our government have uncounted special funds they spend on compensations?
Why is it a rocket science to make it compulsory for anyone joining the police or army to have a life insurance.
I think getting a life insurance is the way forward, because the government use this kind of gesture to gain sympathy and support, these should not be politicized.

Delafruita: its not their duty.the police is controlled and paid by the federal goverment.state government's arent supposed to compensate.the NPF has life insurance schemes for their officers

So they actually have the life insurance scheme. So why is the state government paying such money,do they have a budget for that? These acts prove that the governments have unrestricted access to the state money, this is really bad for democracy.

How about the families of all those slaughtered and maimed by their husbands starting from the relatives of the bodies in the Ezu river
What do they get?

Lilimax:
It is a state money and not his personal money.
However, it is a nice gesture.

Is it not state money they use buy Jets?

babyosisi: How about the families of all those slaughtered and maimed by their husbands starting from the relatives of the bodies in the Ezu river
What do they get?

osisi, shut up your mouth and be sensitive....
how's nassarawa state connected to the people killed in a river in enugu state?

abdul4new: Although the money is not enough,bt it will go along way in assisting d families left behind

exactly what i thought
these men were killed in action. they should have gotten up to 10m each, they had wives and children. i am still chuffed for the widows. half bread is better than nothing.

coogar:

osisi, shut up your mouth and be sensitive....
how's nassarawa state connected to the people killed in a river in enugu state?



exactly what i thought
these men were killed in action. they should have gotten up to 10m each, they have wives and children. i am still chuffed for the widows. half bread is better than nothing.

Coogar,stop following me from place to place
I am not into cougaring business dear
Haba!

Inside all the trillions wey naija get, na 1m dem fit give them, non of my children go be police. TUFIAKWA

babyosisi:
Coogar,stop following me from place to place
I am not into cougaring business dear
Haba!

you are too old for such purposes.....

This is not the solution to the problem. When the problem is well known, the solution will be easy!

After using their souls for political purposes. He knows monetary compensation will likely clear some hungry minds as Nigeria case is now.

Governor Umaru Al-Makura, you'll rot in hell.

doing what they know best....dolling out money after disasters...can't the money used for compensation be used for crime prevention....

state of emergency.. them no gree ....what they want is MORE CRIMES....which leads room MORE COMPENSATION ...which leads to....MORE FUNDS TO LOOT....

Northerners ..we hail thee....SMH

Hm. Everything abt this crisis is happening so fast. This is unlike our Naija oo.
Right frm Day 1 of d crisis, i believe something is not being said. Governor compensates, hmm, does d State have budget for that? Or he wants to appease d bereaved families knowing there was a mistake somewhere?
Anyway, good gesture n may d souls of d departed rest in peace

Applaudable! At least after the pension and life insurance is paid along side this one, the widows will have a back up plan.

babyosisi:

Coogar,stop following me from place to place
I am not into cougaring business dear
Haba!

there is nothing like cougaring in the dictionary tho so you broke rule number 21.

hmmm. this is pathetic.

Someone once told me the below average Nigerian life is worth nothing more han 1million and its enoggh to bury any murder case for the poor, now i believe.. SMH for Naija.

smothly: May God rewards him

May God reward him for what? Was it his money? U should have said may God reward the people of Nasarawa. The governor himself should be punished not rewarded for sending the officers to their death.

Someone once told me the below average Nigerian life is worth nothing more han 1million and its enoggh to bury any murder case for the poor, now i believe.. SMH for Naija.

More like 40,000 naira and one pack of dry buscuits unfortunately!

Many African governments value their citizens more when they are rigor mortis than when they are alive.

smothly: May God rewards him

. May God reward him lyk He rewarded d people of sodom.hez paying doz poor women off fr his incompitence nd grave mistake.specialist hospital d̶̲̥̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ ozz out of d decompozed police corpes d moruge cnt cater fr. This ℓ̊Ƨ̷̜̩̌̋ d same man dat can't nd hasn't payed a dime out of corpers alawee fr Batch B passin out 6th nxt month. Payin doz women t̶̲̥̅ơ̴͡ cova op his errors. May God really reward him