NSITF to expand percentage of funds for beneficiaries of workplace accidents
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The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has pledged to get more employers of labour in all sectors to enroll in its Employees Compensation Scheme.
The agency said the percentage of the utilisation of these funds would be expanded for the intended worker-beneficiaries.
The Executive Director, Operations of the NSITF, Mrs. Mojisolaoluwa Ali-Macaulay stated this during a working visit to the FCT and Mararaba branches of the agency in Abuja
In a statement by the General Manager, Corporate Affairs, NSITF, Nwachukwu Godson she said the new executive management would reposition the agency in line with the directive of President Bola Tinubu.
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 utilisation of these funds for the intended worker-beneficiaries.
“In spite of this core mandate however, the welfare of our workers 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 these 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/CEO and the Executive Management that henceforth, the welfare of the staff of the NSITF is placed at the frontline. Where the Managing Director/CEO 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 better place.
