The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) have agreed to work together to integrate data sharing on their portals.
The partnership will also ensure easy validation of the data of workers who are registered under the Employees’ Compensation Scheme (ECS).
The essence of the collaboration, according to the NSITF, is to ensure that the biodata of the employees under the ECS are easily validated or verified through their National Identity Numbers (NIN).
The Managing Director of NSITF, Mr. Oluwaseun Faleye, spoke on the importance of the collaboration in Abuja when he led a delegation of NSITF Management on a courtesy visit to the Director General of NIMC, Mrs. Abisoye Coker-Odusote.
According to Faleye, “the partnership will help improve NSITF’s efficiency and enhance its processes as regards the database to broaden social security.”
He pointed out that the research and data being gathered by NIMC across the country will help his organisation’s demography on the Employees’ Compensation Scheme.
“This collaboration will help bring sanity to the identity sector. We must harmonise all data as regards ECS.
“Nobody can be registered for the scheme except they are registered and captured under NIN. Today in Nigeria, to get a passport, your NIN must be verified.
“So, we must adopt the same measure to seamlessly get adequate and accurate data of all employees under the scheme,” he said.
He stressed the visit sill further enhance the partnership between the two institutions to help increase efficiency and service delivery.
In his words, “The right and proper data regarding what we do will be very helpful, but beyond that is the message that our collaboration will also give out there, not only to our stakeholders but to also encourage a broader-based adoption of NIMC services in various points.”
He also solicited the help of the NIMC in mapping out NSITF’s services, demographics of services, and how to push them out much more.
In her response, the Director General of NIMC, Mrs. Abisoye Coker-Odusote, assured the NSITF of the support of NIMC to actualise the collaboration.
“We understand that the need is very critical to enabling access to services across the board, this is all we do on a daily basis, so we will definitely hand your IT team over to our IT group for them to just collaborate and immediately form a working group together and we can work out the case around this integration,” she said.