The task force led by its Head of Media and Enlightenment, Mr Ikharo Attah, stopped the examination from holding, citing concerns over violations of COVID-19 safety protocols.
However, there was resistance from the union members of NSITF, insisting that the protocols were being followed. They insisted that their General Manager, Health, Safety and Environment and other top management staff, who organised the examination would not be arrested.
Some of the NSITF staff nearly mobbed a police officer, ASP Abubakar Sanni, who insisted the workers must leave the venue immediately and that the management staff should follow the task force to the Eagle Square to face a mobile court.
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The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts on Thursday deep concern over the five years unaudited accounts of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TEFFUND), describing it as worrisome and gross violation of the 1999 constitution, as ammended.
The Committee also uncovered and lamented that the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN and the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) were yet to pay up their 30 per cent and 20 per cent equity capital as shareholders of the bank as spitulated by the FMBN establishment Act.
Chairman of the House Committee Hon.Oluwole Oke and other lawmakers at an investigative hearing on Audit queries by the office of the Auditor-Genaral of Federation on Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government had queried the Management of bank under its Managing Director, Mr Ahmed Dangiwa and other officials of the agency on the five years unaudited accounts.
ABUJA – The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has expressed displeasure over its discovery of five years unaudited accounts of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMB) and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TEFFUND).
Rep Oluwole Oke, Chairman of the Committee, conveyed the committee’s anger at the investigative hearing on audit queries by the Auditor-General of Federation (AGF) of Ministries Department and Agencies of government, on Thursday, in Abuja.
Oke said that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) had not paid their respective 30 per cent and 20 per cent equity capital as shareholders of the bank, as stipulated by the FMB establishment Act.
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February 3, 2021
The FCT Administration Ministerial Taskforce on Enforcement of COVID-19 Protocols has disrupted the promotion examination of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) staff over violation of the Health Protection Regulations 2021, signed into law last week by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The arrival of the FCT Taskforce team Wednesday sent many of the top management echelon NSITF into disarray, with many of them scaling the fence of the examination venue and abandoning their vehicles, apparently to evade arrest by the COVID-19 enforcement team.
Over 1200 staff of the NSITF drawn from across the nation were cramped into the New MM Event Centre, at Area 11 Abuja for the promotion examination, when the task force stormed the venue, following a tip-off that the exercise was going on in stark violation of the presidential order on COVID-19 health protocols.