Suspended management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has scheduled an emergency virtual meeting to hold tomorrow (Tuesday).
The board is expected to discuss the recent suspension of the Managing Director of the agency, Adebayo Somefun, three Executive Directors and some other top officials.
“It is in this light that I have decided to call an emergency virtual meeting of the management board on Tuesday, July 7, 2020 to consider modalities for our further action.“In the interim, all workers are to keep calm while affected officers are advised to comply with the directives as transmitted to them by the Honourable Minister and the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment.
The agency was responding to allegation by Ngige that Somefun and some members of his executive lavished N3.4 billion on “non-existent staff training split into about 196 different consultancy contracts in order to evade the Ministerial Tenders Board and Federal Executive Council approvals”. “Let them go and tell those ones to the panel. They should go to the panel and show all those things. And if they are correct, the panel will exonerate them,” he said.
“Another allegation the minister levelled against the suspended management was that the project of construction of 14 zonal/regional offices in 14 states, running into billions of naira, was a policy that was done without the board’s or ministerial knowledge, not to talk of approval.
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