Abakaliki— Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has extended his administration’s empowerment programme  to police officers wives in the state.

He announced this during the Christmas party organized for the   officers and men of the state command in Abakaliki.   Umahi, who noted that government would not ask police officers on duty to join in his rice cultivation programme, said their wives should key into his women empowerment scheme in order to reduce over dependence on the salaries of their husbands.

Gov. Dave Umahi

”There is no way we can ask police officers on duty to come and cultivate rice or go and do training for empowerment  but we offer to partner their wives,” the governor said in a statement issued by his spokesman, Emma Anya, on Tuesday.