The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Graphic Newspaper, Mr. Dayo Thomas, has urged relevant authorities to put in place a special welfare program for the families of serving policemen in the country.
He made this plea during an advocacy visit by the Integrity Forum to his office in Lokoja, Kogi State, at the weekend.
Led by the President, Blessing Ogbe, the group lamented the rate at which policemen are being violently killed and their families hunted and attacked by criminals.
According to her, over 50 policemen have been killed in the country in the last one year while the families of many of the officers are being attacked daily.