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16 families of police officers who died while assigned to the Command have received checks totaling N38.3 million from Anambra State’s Commissioner of Police, Echeng Echeng.

On Wednesday, Echeng delivered the checks to the recipients at the state capitol in Awka on behalf of IGP Usman Baba Alkali, the Inspector-General of Police.

DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, the state police’s spokesperson, provided information regarding the disbursement in a statement on Wednesday.

The gesture, according to the statement, is an effort of the IGP toward the family welfare and insurance system designed to support the family of Police personnel who passed away while performing their official duties.

It read, “It is also aimed at spurring officers to greatness while discharging their statutory duties with the assurance that their welfare is of paramount importance to the leadership of the Force.

“The CP while presenting the cheques to the beneficiaries thanked the Inspector-General of Police for his relentless efforts at ensuring a good welfare package for personnel of the Force.

Echeng urged the recipients to invest the funds profitably in a business initiative that will, in turn, lessen the requirements of the dependents who were left behind.

He particularly noted that “in the last three months, this is the second time the Command had received similar cheques from the Inspector General of Police and it was presented to the beneficiaries”.

The CP, in the meantime, gave the IGP assurances that the officers and men of the Command would continue to do their utmost to maintain Anambra State’s peace, security, and safety.

The recipient families expressed gratitude to the Inspector-General of Police and promised to spend the funds wisely.

The Labour Party has removed itself from a widely circulated letter signed by Lamidi Apapa, the party’s self-declared factional national chairman, asking the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to dismiss all claims made by Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate, against the victory of Bola Tibubu of the All Progressives Congress in the general election on February 25.

According to a statement made available to journalists on Tuesday by the party’s acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, on Tuesday, it partly read, “We urged the Tribunal in Abuja to disregard the antics by Apapa, who us a suspended Deputy National Chairman of our party.

“We are by this statement informing all arms of judiciary, including the Tribunals and courts to ignore the ignoble antics of these compromised suspended members of the party.

“We are also calling on the police, DSS and EFCC to arrest these enemies of democracy,” the statement added.

Ifoh spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today, supporting the party’s position, and claimed that Apapa was attempting to undermine Obi’s victory with his conduct.

Ifoh claimed that Apapa is attempting to undermine Obi’s triumph with his behavior in a later interview on Tuesday’s Politics Today program on Channels Television.

“Approaching the tribunals to withdraw all the cases lodged by Labour Party candidates across board is the height of subterfuge and treachery, and Nigerians will resist this ploy to plunge the nation into unnecessary turmoil,” he maintained.

“The leadership of the Labour Party is therefore calling on the tribunals to disregard any letter emanating from our suspended National Legal Adviser, Samuel Akingbade to the effect that all our cases are to be withdrawn.

The party’s acting national chairman, Apapa, has asserted he is the party’s leader, saying, “Since the court had suspended Abure and other national officers, I am the next to take over.”