Police Break Silence on Report Linking IGP’s Wife to N6,000 Dues, “She Never Collected a Kobo”

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of experience covering political parties and movements.

The Nigeria Police Force has strongly refuted a media report alleging that senior police officers were directed to remit N6,000 each as 2025 dues to the Police Officers’ Wives Association (POWA) under the leadership of the Inspector-General of Police’s wife.

The Lagos state police command, in a statement signed by its spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, the police described the report as “malicious, outrightly false, unfounded and a figment of imagination of an uneducated writer.”

Hundeyin clarified that:

“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.”

Speaking further, Hundeyin explained that POWA is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that has, since inception, catered for the welfare of police officers’ wives, children, and families of officers who died in service.

According to him, the association “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.”

The command further clarified that the association’s activities are funded through voluntary contributions.

“POWA dues are voluntary and payable only by Senior Police Officers from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and above, including the Commissioner of Police,” Hundeyin stressed.

“These dues are paid into POWA accounts domiciled in Lagos State and expended within the State Command for the benefit of members, not to the POWA President or her office in Abuja.”

He noted that the funds go into welfare programmes, empowerment initiatives for police widows, and support for children and wards of deceased officers.

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Source: Legit.ng