\u201cAt the very least, his insurance is an entitlement<\/a> and should be paid to his family. This would go a long way in alleviating the suffering and pain we feel after losing our provider.<\/p>\n\u201cI have written letters to the appropriate authorities and even sent letters to the Chief of Naval Staff, but up till now, there has been no response regarding my plea. <\/p>\n
\u201cTherefore, I join my fellow widows who are facing this problem of non-payment of our late husbands\u2019 insurance policies to plead with the appropriate authorities to resolve this matter,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n
Similarly, Mrs Yemi Enoch, who has been a widow for seven years, said she was pleased that the celebration was held in remembrance of fallen heroes.\n<\/p>\n
Enoch, however, said more needed to be done to cater for the families left behind by officers and soldiers who died in the line of duty.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of us have children who are still in school or who have just left school, and mouths to feed; so whatever help we can get will be appreciated,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Nigerian Legion, Lagos State chapter, Mr Akeem Wolimoh, said the legion had been distributing palliatives every year to military veterans and widows of deceased personnel.\n<\/p>\n
Wolimoh said the Lagos State Government had donated 500 bags of 25kg rice and other food items, which would be shared in February among widows and other beneficiaries.\n<\/p>\n
He said Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had consistently supported the legion during the annual celebrations by providing funds and palliatives for distribution to members.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cSince I came into office four years ago, I have distributed rice, live chickens and other food items every year to widows and veterans in need.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe currently have 387 widows registered with us, and this year, another set of palliatives will be distributed in February in honour of our fallen heroes,\u201d Wolimoh said.<\/p>\n
He added that there were ongoing plans to empower the children of widows and support them through educational trust funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mrs Amodu during the wreath laying ceremony yesterday. It was a pathetic sight as widows of fallen military…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[16393,16420,16421,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-26758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-armed-forces-remembrance-day","9":"tag-helen-amodu","10":"tag-nan","11":"tag-nigeria"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}