The Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, BAYELSA  STATE Chapter in collaboration with the State Ministry of Information and Orientation has held a 2 -hour interactive/training meeting with the Police Officers' Wives Association, POWA, at the Ekeki Police Division in YENAGOA on the Coronavirus pandemic.

The session is in continuation of the ongoing measures geared towards sensitizing focal groups/persons on the preventive measures, symptoms and steps to take to prevent the spread of the virus in Bayelsa State.

The  session which also had in attendance wife of the Commissioner of Police, Bayelsa State Command, Mrs Stella Ukereuwem-Akpan, had other representatives of POWA, representatives of A, Ekeki, Azikoro, Akenfa and Igbogene Divisions as well as representatives of the various barracks who are seen as vulnerable groups owing to the exposure of their spouses in the line of duty and the barracks being a home to thousands of these officers and their families.

The event also witnessed the distribution of palliatives to include buckets, liquid soap and sanitizers to the various Divisions and Barracks in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State Capital.

Recall that the State Chapter also took the sensitization campaign to the Bakassi Returnees'/IDP Camp at Ekeki as well as the Swali Ultra Modern Market which play host to thousands of people daily.

During one of NAWOJ's visit in the wake of the outbreak, food items and other palliatives were distributed to the IDPs.

The NAWOJ team was led by the State Chairperson, Mrs Maria Olodi-Osumah and other executives.

Attached are pictures taken during the visit.