Ngige hijacked NSITF administration, suspended MD alleges |

 Tony Akowe and Victor Oluwasegun, Abuja

Suspended Managing Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance coverage Belief Fund (NSITF) Adebayo Somefun has accused Minister of Labour and Employment Senator Chris Ngige of hijacking administration of the company.

He acknowledged allegations towards the suspended administration had been unusual to them.

He additionally defined the N3.four billion alleged by the Minister of Labour and Employment to have been spent on “non- existent coaching’ was truly used for trainings between 2017 and 2019.

The trainings, he insisted, had been duly accredited and carried out.

Somefun, who was testifying earlier than the Home of Representatives advert hoc Committee, accused the Minister of totalitarianism, saying “how can an social gathering be the one to nominate an investigative panel? That is towards the ideas of honest listening to.”

He additionally claimed that whereas he was on his annual go away, the Minister ordered the Normal Supervisor Finance to pay N81 million for a coaching, which was not carried out.

“After I returned from go away, I queried the GM, Finance and insisted that the coaching have to be held. That’s certainly one of my sins that I used to be not forgiven,” he harassed.