By Favour Nnabugwu

THE House of Representatives has summoned the Management of the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) and the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service, Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) to a meeting in Abuja tomorrow to find a lasting solution to the endless feud between both parties.

The intervention of the lawmakers was prompted by the petition written to the House by the union on the lingering crisis and the threat by the workers to shut down the Commission nationwide.

The Union wrote a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, alleging mismanagement and breakdown of governance and administrative structures in the Commission.

However, investigations by  Vanguard Insurance  revealed that a 5-man delegation from the Federal Ministry of Finance was at the Commission’s head office in Abuja last Monday to broker peace. The team had a close-door meeting with Commissioner for Insurance, Alhaji Muhammed Kari, and the Staff of the Commission.

Before the summon, the House of Representatives, in a letter dated January 27, 2017, with reference number NASS/8HR/CT.55/VOL II/107, which was signed by the Clerk to the Committee, Abdulkadir Bello, the House’s joint committee advised that the industrial action should be suspended.

The joint committee setup comprised  those of Insurance and Actuarial Matters, Finance and Labour, and Employment and Productivity and was setup based on House Resolution 25 of 2017 to investigate the alleged cases of intimidation, victimization and discrimination in the Commission and settle the lingering crisis between the union and the management.

It would be recalled that the crisis has been going on for over a year now with the workers, under the aegis of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service, Technical and Recreational Services Employees closing down the Commission’s headquarters twice last year, in March and November.