By Cross Udo, Abuja
The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has said its new executive management has hit the ground running to reposition the agency by President Bola Tinubu’s directives.
The new Executive Director of Operations of the tripartite agency, Mrs Mojisolaoluwa Ali-Macaulay, stated this while visiting the FCT and Mararaba branches in the Abuja Region of the Fund yesterday.
A statement issued by the NSITF General Manager of Corporate Affairs, Nwachukwu Godson, quoted the Executive Director of Operations as saying, “A profoundly knowledgeable lawyer leads this administration with an excellent pedigree in corporate finance. Oluwaseun Falaye was painstakingly selected by the President to inject new blood into the NSITF, knowing its core place 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 at work.
“We have saddled ourselves with the arduous 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 enrol and then expand the percentage of the utilization of these funds for the intended worker-beneficiaries.
“Despite this core mandate, however, the welfare of our workers in the 57 branches and 12 regions across the country brace the odds to ensure the Employees’ Compensation Scheme is implemented is dear to our hearts. That is the essence of these working tours, aimed at arming us with first-hand knowledge of what is going on 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 better place.
“For me particularly, I want to prove a point that those incorrect narratives do not define me. I’m progressing with this assignment so people can see who I am. The weight is also lying on my shoulders.”
She further promised that the leadership would provide appropriate working tools to clear all obstacles to optimal task delivery, urging all staff to remain loyal and support the ongoing efforts to reposition the NSITF.
Macaulay was accompanied on the visit by the General Manager of Compliance, Kabir Ma’aji, the General Manager of claims and Compensation; Nkeiru Ogunnaike, the General Manager of Social Security; Tony Eke, the General Manager of the informal sector, Chika Onyewuchi and the General Manager of the Abuja Region, Bridget Ashang, among others.
