The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) chapter, has petitioned the federal government over the demotion of junior workers, secret recruitment and failure to remit deducted pension of workers in the last two years.
In a petition to the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, the union alleged that the NSITF management demoted over 5,000 workers to cut costs but secretly recruited management-level staff.
Copies of the petition were sent to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and the Director General of the Pension Commission (PENCOM), among others.
The petition was jointly signed by the President of ASSBIFI, Bala T. Tijani, and General Secretary, Abdulkadir Isa, as well as the Chairman, of the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institution Employees (NUBIFIE), Opeouluwa Ogunfowote, and secretary, Wenzamma Simon.
When Daily Trust visited the headquarters of NSITF in Abuja, for the management’s reaction on the issues raised by the workers, especially on the alleged secret recruitment, the spokesperson of the agency, Mrs Ijeoma Oji-Okoronkwo, directed one of our correspondents to the Human Resources Department.
She said the General of Manager, Human Resource Department, Mr Emeka Offor, would be in the best position to offer detailed explanations on the alleged secret recruitment carried out in the agency.
But when Daily Trust contacted Offor, he referred our reporter back to the spokesperson of the agency.
Further efforts to get Offor to speak proved abortive as he hung up his phone immediately after our correspondent asked him again about the issue.
He has also yet to react to a text message sent to him seeking formal explanations on the matter at the time of filing this report.
However, when Mrs Oji-Okoronkwo was called back, she simply said, “On other issues raised, I can tell you that the fund followed due processes. In fact, the union or workers levelling allegations were part of the meetings where some agreements were reached.
DAILY TRUST
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