By Tony Nzekwe
In line with the Service Cooperate Social Responsibility CSR, the Chair Lady Customs Officers Wives Association (COWA) Onne chapter Hajiya Amina Aliyu Babandede, has donated food items rice, indomie, cooking oil to orphanages and less privilege people to celebrate new year. She also empowered 40 widows with grinding mills and sewing machines to mark the end of the year.
This information was contained in a statement issued by the command Public Relations Officer, Chief Superintendent of Customs, Benjamin Lomba, and made available to GLOBAL RAYS Media.
Statement reads in part: “In her address at the event held today 31 December 2024 at the Customs house Onne, the Chair Lady formally on behalf of the COWA members Onne chapter appreciate the President of COWA Mrs Kekilemo Adeniyi fpmc for her unwavering support and sincere commitment to the course of Customs Officers Wives Association.”
In the same vein, Hajiya Amina Babandede, appreciated her husband, the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Mohammed Babandede for encouraging the association and being a father to all COWA members.
“Present at the occasion were the Customs Area Controller, Area 2 Command Onne, the Chair Lady Nigeria Immigration Service Wives Association Rivers State marine Command, representative of The Port Manager NPA Onne, representatives of the Commandant NDLEA Port Command, the State Commander Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service among others.
In response, the Proprietor of Priest Hood Orphanage home, Onne gave a vote of thanks to the Chair Lady for the show of love towards the Children resident at the home.
However, the Widows within Ebubu Barracks community also thanked the Chair Lady for the sewing machine and grinding machine given to them.
In her remarks, the Chair Lady, said, “I promise to do more in 2025 and call on all COWA members to give their husbands the needed and necessary support. ”
