Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) is partnering with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to ensure easy validation of data of workers who are registered under the Employees Compensation Scheme (ECS).
The Managing Director of NSITF, Barrister Oluwaseun Faleye spoke on the importance of the initiative when he led a delegation of NSITF Management on a courtesy visit on the Director General of NIMC, Abisoye Coker-Odusote.
He said, with the collaboration Nobody can be registered to the scheme except they are registered and captured under NIN.
Faleye gave more insight on the Employees’ Compensation Scheme which is designed to provide compensation for employees who have suffered injuries, death or disabilities as a result of work related issues.
In his words “We feel that a partnership with your organization will further enhance our ability to provide that service much more efficiently, particularly in the areas of access to the national database where we can identify eligible individuals for not only the ECS service but even in conceptualizing broader based social security initiatives.”
Director General of NIMC, Abisoye Coker-Odusote, acknowledged the importance of the Scheme and directed the IT Unit to collaborate with that of the NSITF for the integration.