The Minister of Labour and
Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has failed to inaugurate the board of the Nigeria
Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) within the time-frame set by President
Muhammadu Buhari.
The Secretary to the Government
of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, had issued a circular penultimate week
directing all the ministers to inaugurate boards of agencies and parastatals of
government.
However, Ngige defied this order
and opted to inaugurate only the boards of the National Directorate of
Employment (NDE), the National Productivity Centre and Michael Imoudu National
Institute of Labour Studies (MINILS) in Abuja on Thursday.
He insisted that the board of
NSITF would not be inaugurated until a nine-man panel of enquiry he instituted
on February 15, 2018 submits its report.
Meanwhile, the perceived
disregard to the directive of the President did gone down well with the Nigeria
Labour Congress (NLC).
The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba,
said in Abuja yesterday that the action of the minister was a clear disregard
to the directive of the President that the boards of all the parastatals must
be inaugurated on or before Friday, March 9, 2018.
He said: “Well, I know that the
President has given a directive that the boards of all government parastatals
must be inaugurated on or before Friday this week.
“The NLC secretariat has not got
any letter to the effect that the board of the NSITF would be inaugurated on
Friday. Such a step would be disobeying the directive of the President.”
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