The Minister of Defence Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi (retd) has, on behalf of the federal government, pledged to support the widows of the military officers who were involved in the 1992 C-130 plane crash in Lagos.
The federal government under successive administrations is making the pledge for the upteenth time.
Magashi made the pledge when he granted audience to the representatives of the Widows, led by their National Coordinator, Ogale Jude, on Wednesdsy in Abuja.
The Special Assistant to the Minister on Media and Publicity, Mohammad Abdulkadri, announced this in a statement.
The minister assured them of his commitment to addressing the gaps that led to the delay and discrepancies in settling the commitments to the widows.
He, however, tasked the group to furnish the ministry with the updated facts and figures about members living or dead.
He added that the raw data would trigger actionable efforts to meet their demands once and for all.
The group’s coordinator, Jude, raised the general concerns about the yet-to-be-fulfilled promises by the tripartite bodies of the federal government, the home states of the deceased, and the services.
Jude said promises in areas of building houses, purchase of cars and training of children of the families of the officers who paid the supreme price in the line of duty were yet to be fulfilled.
The coordinator, who said that some of their members were no longer alive, said that they died as a result of a lack of funds to cater to their needs.