By Joan Nwagwu
The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), has partnered with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), to link enrollees data registered under the Employees Compensation Scheme (ECS) to their portal.
Mr Oluwaseun Faleye, Managing Director of NSITF said this when he led a delegation of NSITF management on a courtesy visit on the Director General of NIMC, Mrs Abisoye Coker-Odusote, on Wednesday in Abuja.
Faleye said the partnership was important as it would integrate data sharing on National Identify Number (NIN) portal and ensure easy validation of data of workers in the scheme.
Accord6tp him, the essence of the collaboration is to ensure that the bio-data of the employees , under the ECS are easily validated or verified through their NIN.
“The partnership will help improve NSITF’s efficiency and enhance its processes as regards database to broaden social security,”he said.
He added that the research and data being gathered by NIMC across the country, would help the Fund”s demography on Employees’ Compensation Scheme.
Faleye further said that the collaboration would help bring sanity to the identity sector and also service delivery to the Fund.
The NSITF therefore called for the harmonise all data as regards ECS., adding that nobody can be registered to the scheme except they are registered and captured under NIN.
“Today in Nigeria, to get a passport your NIN must be verified. So we must adopt the same measure to seemlessly get adequate and accurate data of all employees under the scheme,”he said
Faleye also said that the ECS was designed to provide compensation for employees who have suffered injuries, death or disabilities as a result of work.
“We feel that a partnership with your organisation will further enhance our ability to provide that service much more efficiently, particularly in the areas of access to the national database.
“This is where we can identify eligible individuals for not only the ECS service but even in conceptualizing broader based social security initiatives,”he said.
Faleye, further noted that the NSITF considers the partnership very useful and important as it would give the Fund the ability to really undertake verification, particularly for those that were already captured under the ECS.
In her response, Mrs Abisoye Coker-Odusote, Director General of NIMC, assured the NSITF of the support of NIMC to actualise the colloboration.
Odusote said that NIN would partner with the Fund as the need was critical to enable access to services across the board.
“We will definitely hand your IT team over to our own IT group for them to just collaborate and immediately form a working group together and we can work out the case around this integration.
“I will set a timeline for us to ensure that proper integration is done for a week and then we can definitely add this to each of our achievements, ”she said.