Organised Labour under the platform of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has vowed to shut down the offices of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) throughout the country including the Federal Capital Territory Abuja “unless the management of the NHIS within 21 days, reverses the illegal secondment of staff into the organisation”.
Giving this indication in a press statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday, the ASCSN Secretary-General, Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, explained that all efforts made by the Union to reach out to the Executive Secretary, Prof Usman Yusuf, “to have a change of heart and convene a meeting to discuss the illegal secondment of staff into the organisation had been rebuffed”.
The statement added: “As a responsible trade union organisation that believes so much in dialogue in settling dispute in work-places, we requested a meeting with the Executive Secretary to discuss the issue of illegal secondment with a view to resolving it only to be ignored on all occasions”.
“As we speak, the Executive Secretary illegally imported officers into the organisation, some of whom were on grade level 10 in their former work-places and placed them on grade level 15 at the NHIS, positions that are inconsistent with their qualifications and experience despite the fact that there are qualified and competent serving officers that should have been made to fill the positions,” the Union added.
