By Peregba Jerry
To cushion the effect of the economic hardship being experienced across the country, the Defence and Police Officers Wives Association (DEPOWA) at the weekend donated palliatives to over 50 widows of soldiers.
The beneficiaries whose husbands died in active service were given foodstuffs and cash gifts at the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC), Oshodi.
Handing over the palliatives to the beneficiaries, DEPOWA President, Mrs..Oghogho Musa, urged them to remain good citizens and ensure that the various skills they had acquired before were adequately utilised.
Mrs. Musa who also unveiled a grinding and milling shop built at the centre by the Coordinator of the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre Officers Wives Association (NAFRCOWA), Grace Amesinola, said they would continue to embark on activities and programmes that will better the lives of soldiers’ wives and children.
According to the DEPOWA President, the grinding and milling shop aligned with her vision to empower women and girls to become productive contributors to family and society.
She articulated the initiative’s role in enhancing capacity development for DEPOWA and Defence Non-Commissioned Officers’ Wives Association (DENCOWA) members, as well as providing crucial humanitarian support to the less privileged and vulnerable individuals.
She commended the NAFRCOWA coordinator for her ‘ingenuity and unwavering commitment” to establishing the Grinding and Milling Shop, underscoring its potential to alleviate the hardship faced by the wives and children of military personnel in grinding food products.
“I wish to appreciate the Coordinator NAFRCOWA Mrs Grace Amesinola for her ingenuity and commitment in establishing the Grinding and Milling Shop, this will really reduce the hardship of going to distant places by wives and children of personnel to grind food products.”
The Commandant, NAFRC, Air Vice Marshall (AVM) Adeniyi Amensinola lauded the DEPOWA president for providing assistance to those who have sacrificed so much for the nation’s security and well-being.
He emphasized the importance of not forgetting the widows and orphans of the deceased personnel and assured them that their spouses’ supreme sacrifice in the line of duty would not be in vain.
“The show of human kindness and initiatives such as we are witnessing today being undertaken by the President DEPOWA are reassuring and comforting bearing in mind that widows of deceased personnel are not forgotten and that the supreme sacrifice paid by their spouses in the line of duty while upholding national security is not in vain. “As we continue to remember our fallen heroes and veterans who sacrifice much to the nation, we use this opportunity to thank Almighty God for their lives well spent in the service of our dear country as well as in maintaining regional peace and stability”, he said.
The Nation reports that the visit also saw the DEPOWA President and members of his entourage planting trees at the Widows and Orphans skills acquisition site inside NAFRC.
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