NSSF boss should be a member
Dec 13, 2009
EDITOR—I will never tire to take the officials of NSSF head-on who claim to have more feelings for workers than our elected members.
EDITOR—I will never tire to take the officials of NSSF head-on who claim to have more feelings for workers than our elected members.
On Thursday, the public relations manager of NSSF, Victor
Karamagi, wrote vaguely defending the NSSF chairman Vincent Ssekono for saying that paying NSSF contributions to members at 45 years is not tenable.
He goes on to explain that the statement first appeared in the press but then stops at that and does not tell us whether it was made by Ssekono.
Karamagi, no other person can reflect
our views better than Sam Lyomoki who was elected to Parliament through a legally constituted workers’ electoral college.
Ssekono is just an appointed official and has no moral obligation to think for us what we want. How can paying a worker’s savings when he is long dead be in the worker’s interest?
Both Karamagi and Ssekono talk of paying workers before 45 being
untenable but neither tells us why.
I think the reason is simple. NSSF
has misused our funds in Nsimbe, Temangalo and Alcon deals and awarded its officers huge allowances and bonuses from our savings.
I think the board chairman should be a contributor and not a civil servant like Ssekono who waits for his pension from Government which he has not contributed to.
Tema Kafeero
Nansana
On Thursday, the public relations manager of NSSF, Victor
Karamagi, wrote vaguely defending the NSSF chairman Vincent Ssekono for saying that paying NSSF contributions to members at 45 years is not tenable.
He goes on to explain that the statement first appeared in the press but then stops at that and does not tell us whether it was made by Ssekono.
Karamagi, no other person can reflect
our views better than Sam Lyomoki who was elected to Parliament through a legally constituted workers’ electoral college.
Ssekono is just an appointed official and has no moral obligation to think for us what we want. How can paying a worker’s savings when he is long dead be in the worker’s interest?
Both Karamagi and Ssekono talk of paying workers before 45 being
untenable but neither tells us why.
I think the reason is simple. NSSF
has misused our funds in Nsimbe, Temangalo and Alcon deals and awarded its officers huge allowances and bonuses from our savings.
I think the board chairman should be a contributor and not a civil servant like Ssekono who waits for his pension from Government which he has not contributed to.
Tema Kafeero
Nansana