NAICOM Workers Protest In Lagos, Abuja

Members of the Association of Senior Staff Union of National Insurance Commission (NAICON) on Thursday staged protests in Abuja and Lagos over non-implementation of their various demand from the management of the insurance regulator.
The protesters were demanding that the management conduct promotion examines for members of staff who are long due to be lifted to the next grade.
Some of the placards displayed at the gate of the Lagos Liason office of the commission near the Passport office in Ikoyi called on President Mohammadu Buhari to remove the Commissioner for Insurance Mohammed Kari who they accused of highhandedness.
Kari was accused of posting staff to areas outside their professional cadre and redeploy them to non-existence NAICOM branch in a bid to frustrate them from the service. Karis was also accused of nepotism and other conduct not in the interest of the commission.
The workers called on the president to save the commission from collapse due to the overbearing attitude of the commissioner.
NAICOM was established in 1997 by the National Insurance Commission Act 1997 with responsibility for ensuring the effective administration, supervision, regulation, and control of insurance business in Nigeria and protection of insurance policyholders, beneficiaries and third parties to insurance contracts.