Photo: from left, NSITF GM Claims, Nkiru Ogunnaike, DGM HSE, Ijeoma Okeke, GM Compliance, Arc. Kabir Maa’ji, GM Abuja Region, Bridget Ashang &Executive Director, Operations NSITF, Hon. Mrs. Ali-Macaulay, GM, Informal Sector, Chika Onyewuchi & GM Social Security, Tony Eke during the tour of Abuja Region of the Fund, Tuesday.
The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has said its new executive management has hit the ground running to re-position the agency in line with the directive of the President.
The new Executive Director, Operations of the tripartite agency, Hon. Mrs. Mojisolaoluwa Ali-Macaulay stated this today while on a working visit to the FCT and Mararaba Branches in the Abuja Region of the Fund.
She said, “ this administration led by a deeply knowledgeable lawyer with excellent pedigree in corporate finance, Oluwaseun Falaye was painstakingly selected by the President to inject new blood into the NSITF, knowing the core place it occupies in promoting a healthy national workforce.
“The NSITF is an agency that has workplace safety as its primary obligation, and holds in trust, contributions from public and private employers. From these contributions, employees who suffer injuries, disability or disease in the course of work are compensated. Also their dependents are compensated when the employee dies in the course of work.
“ We have saddled ourselves with the onerous task of making sure that this is fully achieved by unleashing the potentials of the Fund in stakeholder advocacy to get more employers of labour in all sectors to enroll and then expand the percentage of the utilization of these funds for the intended worker-beneficiaries.
“ In spite of this core mandate however, the welfare of our workers who in the 57 branches and 12 regions across the country who brace the odds to ensure the Employees’ Compensation Scheme is implemented is dear to our hearts. And that is the essence of this working tours, aimed at arming us with firsthand knowledge of what the goings on are in our frontiers.
“I bring you good tidings from the Managing Director/CE and the Executive Management that henceforth, the welfare of the staff of the NSITF is placed at the frontline. Where the Managing Director/CE and my humble self have hitherto worked in Lagos, we touched lives and I know this assignment in Abuja will not be different. We shall leave the NSITF a far more better place.
“ For me particularly, I personally want to prove a point that those incorrect narratives do not define me. I’m moving forward for people to see who I am with this assignment. The weight is also lying on my shoulders.”
She further promised that the leadership will tackle the provision of appropriate working tools to clear all obstacles to optimal delivery of assigned tasks, urging all staff to remain loyal and support the ongoing efforts to reposition the NSITF.
Hon. Mrs. Macaulay was accompanied on the visit by the General Manager Compliance, Arc. Kabir Ma’aji, General Manager, Claims and Compensation, Barr. Nkiru Ogunnaike General Manager, Social Security, Tony Eke, General Manger, Informal Sector, Chika Onyewuchi, and General Manger, Abuja Region, Bridget Ashang among others.
