The inspector-general of police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has presented a Settlement Group Life Assurance and IGP Family Welfare Scheme benefits, amounting to N2.276,110,966.80 to 613 families of police officers, who died in active service.
The cheques were presented at the Force Headquarters in Abuja to the beneficiaries on Thursday.
The life assurance scheme is being funded by the federal government while the IGP family welfare scheme is funded by the Nigeria Police Force.
The IGP charged them to use the money for the benefit of the families left behind by the deceased officers.
He said the gesture was part of the IGP’s efforts to sympathise with the families of the deceased and also to upkeep their day-to-day life challenges.
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