Wife of the Inspector-General of Police and Police Officer’s Wives Association (POWA) president, Hajiya Hajara Usman Alkali on Saturday, May 29, 2021, initiated monthly health walk for wives of police personnel Lagos State Police Command, in continuation of the plan of the new leadership of the police to improve the general well-being of police officers and men.
Hajiya Alkali had led the members of POWA in the state on a road walk from Alexander Road, Ikoyi through the Lekki/Ikoyi Link Bridge.
According to the command’s police spokesman, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi in a statement, the number one police wife, while addressing the POWA members and some senior officers that participated in the walk, including the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, admonished police personnel and their wives to regularly embark on physical exercises that would improve their health condition, so that they would be more active and productive in the force.
Adejobi said that she urged POWA members and officers of the command to organise such health walk every first Saturday of the month, while also seized the opportunity to present some gift items to members of the association who are widows, to appreciate them for their commitment and steadfastness in the course of promoting oneness, unity and progress within the association and the Nigeria Police Force in general.
The POWA President also visited Obalende Barracks where she launched monthly sanitation in all police barracks across the country.
She urged police wives to embrace the initiative, geared towards promoting cleanliness and sanitation in police barracks.
She added that the sanitation exercise should come up on every first and last Saturday of the month and be made continuous.
Hajiya Alkali also seized the opportunity to visit the state governor, Mr Babajide Sanwoolu and his wife at the Lagos House, Marina, where she made some demands on behalf of the association and the entire Police Force, out of which some were granted by the governor, especially the construction and establishment of a Police Secondary School.
The POWA President applauded Odumosu for his love for the association and the wives of all police personnel in the state.
She pleaded pleaded for more support from the Commissioner of Police and the husbands of other police wives in the command.
