It was an attractive spectacle when 96-year-old Dame Stella O. Okuyiga, who retired as a Deputy Commissioner of Police, took the spotlight during the official unveiling of her book titled ‘Origin of Police Women in Nigeria’.
Okuyiga, who hails from the Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State, was among the first 20 women recruited into the Nigeria Police Force in 1955 and retired in 1996.
Her book drew the Inspector General of Police, Olatunji Disu, from Abuja, the Rivers State governor, captains of industry, government officials, serving and retired senior police officers, traditional rulers, civil society groups, and representatives from the Nigerian Bar Association, International Federation of Women Lawyers, and the media, among others.
Disu wrote the introduction to the book while serving as Rivers State Commissioner of Police after he met the author on one occasion and promised to see the publication of the author’s biography.
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