The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) Wednesday 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 of the tripartite agency, Hon. Mrs. Mojisolaoluwa Ali-Macaulay, stated this 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 utilisation of the funds for the intended 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.
