Lagos pays N142 million to deceased staff’s families

Muslim Folami, Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs

Kazeem Ugbodaga

The Lagos State Government at the weekend paid N142 million to families of deceased staff as insurance claim.

A total of 71 families benefited from the insurance package which was paid through LASACO Assurance Plc at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Government Secretariat at Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

The beneficiaries are families of deceased Local Government and the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB staff.

Speaking at the event, Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode said the welfare of staff was a top priority of his administration.

Ambode, who was represented by the Commissioner for Local Government and Communities Affairs, Muslim Folami said the payment of insurance package to deceased staff’s families was the second in the series as the first one was carried out in 2013.

According to Ambode, the government cared for the welfare of staff, even when they were dead as what accrued to them would be given to their families.

He charged families of the deceased not to waste the money on parties but to cater for the children left behind by the deceased.

The governor also said that his administration had embarked on infrastructural development with the construction of 114 roads which would be delivered by 15 August, 2016.

Chairman, Local Government Service Commission, Babatunde Rotinwa urged the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the fund, urging those in active service to support the government by giving their best.

Deputy Managing Director, LASACO Assurance Plc, Rilwan Oshinusi said Lagos was the first state in the country to come up with life insurance package for its staff.

He also appealed to beneficiaries to utilise the fund judiciously, adding that the company was committed to best insurance practice as the benefits of government’s employees would not be compromised.

Director General, Lagos State Pension Commission, LASPEC, Folsashade Onanuga said the insurance package was just one of the packages to be benefited by the deceased families.

She said the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS and terminal benefits of the deceased would also be paid to them.

“This is not the time to start fighting among yourselves. It is time for you to join hands together to build the family rather than destroy,” she said.

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