It was all tales of sorrow, anguish and pain from widows of fallen heroes, as the country marked the 2023 Armed Forces Remembrance Day across the nation last Sunday,
“I think it will be good to make use of technology because it will ensure the safety of the widows. I’ll suggest that some of the policies guiding the collection of entitlement for widows of deceased military officers should be reviewed. We all know the state of the economy.”
While his entitlement was paid to his widow, Mujidat, his life insurance has since been held on to, even eight years after his demise. “Last year, we got N21,000 from the money the government gave us . This year, we shared N1 million and I got N35,000. They asked us to come to Abuja today, the transport is too much, but I have to look for it, she bemoaned.
But a 32-year-old widow, Mrs Oluwasegun Adebayo, whose husband, a policeman, was killed by armed robbers during a bank robbery at Ilawe Ekiti in May 2018, said that life had been miserable since then.
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