By Joan Nwagwu
The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) says it will embark on advocacy to ensure that more employers of labour in all sectors key into the employee compensation scheme.
Mrs Mojisolaoluwa Ali-Macaulay, the new Executive Director, Operations of NSTIF said this during a working visit to the FCT and Mararaba branches in the Abuja region,.
Ali-Macaulay said that the new executive management of the fund was ready to hit the ground running to re-position the agency in line with the directive of the President Bola Tinubu.
According to her, we have saddled ourselves with the onerous task of making sure that this is fully achieved by unleashing the potentials of the Fund.
“This is through stakeholders 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 beneficiaries.
“In spite of this core mandate however, the welfare of our workers across the country who brace the odds to ensure the employees’ compensation scheme is implemented is dear to our hearts, ” he said.
Accordimg to him, that is the essence of this working tours, aimed at arming us with firsthand knowledge of what the goings on are in our frontiers.
Ali-Macaulay also said that the leadership of the fund was led by a lawyer with excellent pedigree in corporate finance, Oluwaseun Falaye, Managing Director/CEO of the fund.
She said that Falaye was painstakingly selected by to inject new blood into the NSITF, knowing the core place it occupies in promoting a healthy national workforce.
She added that the NSITF is an agency that has workplace safety as its primary obligation, and holds in trust, contributions from public and private employers.
She said that from the contributions, employees who suffered injuries, disability in the course of work were compensated.
“Their dependents also are compensated when the employee dies in the course of work,’she said.
Ali-Macaulay assured the staff that henceforth, the welfare of the staff of the NSITF would be placed at the frontline.
“We shall leave the NSITF a far better place. For me particularly, I personally want to prove a point that those incorrect narratives do not define me.
“I am moving forward for people to see who I am with this assignment. The weight is also lying on my shoulders,”she said.
She further promised that the leadership will tackle the provision of appropriate working tools to clear all obstacles to optimal delivery of assigned tasks.
She urged all staff to remain loyal and support the ongoing efforts to reposition the NSITF.
Macaulay was accompanied on the visit by the General Manager Compliance, Kabir Ma’aji, General Manager, Claims and Compensation, Nkiru Ogunnaike, and General Manager, Social Security.
Others were Tony Eke, General Manger, Informal Sector, Chika Onyewuchi, General Manger, Abuja Region, Bridget Ashang among others