The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety
Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has presented land title documents to benefitting
staff of Zone one Headquarters Kaduna, with a promise for more welfare
programmes. According to Bisi Kazeem, Head Media Relations and Strategy, FRSC,
he gave the assurances in Kaduna state sector command while presenting Land
Title Documents to one hundred (100) beneficiaries of land acquisition scheme
under the “One staff, One house project,” being executed by the Post Service
Scheme (PSS).
The Corps Marshal expressed satisfaction with the
level of success recorded by the scheme within a short time, calling on staff
to invest more in their future. He noted that fear of retiring into penury and
homelessness accounted for why many staff hesitate to retire after completing
their years of service.
According to him, his Management decided to take
the decision to introduce the policy in view of the plight of such staff,
stating that with the success so far recorded through the medium term loan,
auto loan and landed property, the initial cynicism expressed by some staff has
given way to hope and confidence in the scheme. “The Post Service Scheme (PSS)
is a novel idea that was initiated based on the belief that as public servants,
we must not consume all that we have today, but plan and save some for the
rainy day when we would be out of service,” he stated.
The Corps Marshal pointed out that PSS came out
of Management’s realization that many staff that retired from service easily
became distressed due to lack of personal savings and difficulties associated
with accessing pensions on retirement. “With this reality, I made up my mind to
break the jinx by instituting a programme of gradual contribution by staff
towards their days of retirement,” he further stated.
The Corps Marshal reiterated his commitment to
ensuring that no staff looses a kobo contributed into the scheme, saying the
various programmes and projects being initiated to address immediate and long
term financial challenges of the staff have been well thought out by the Board
of Trustees. “These projects have been carefully selected after a careful study
to determine their importance to the realization of staff’s immediate and long
term welfare needs,” he stated.
“I want to reassure you all that we would not
rest on our oars but continue to work hard to come out with more ideas that
could alleviate the sufferings of the staff and motivating them for improved
productivity,” the Corps Marshal added.
The FRSC Boss further noted that in line with the
accountability posture of his Management, staff are constantly being updated of
their monthly contributions, adding that alert and mails stating their
contribution have been activated. “Consequently, every staff is expected to
receive monthly alert based on the deductions made from the salaries,” he
stated.
“To ensure unhindered feedback mechanism,
telephone numbers are equally provided for further clarifications in case there
are grey areas.
“All these measures are meant to build the
confidence and trust of the staff in the system with a view that it would
encourage staff to believe that nothing would happen to their contributions,”
he further stated
The Zonal Commanding Officer, Zone one, Kaduna,
Assistant Corps Marshal Bulus Darwang who welcomed guests to the event
commended the Corps Marshal for the initiative. He pointed out that the success
of the scheme is evidenced by the number of beneficiaries that had so far
accessed the various facilities as evidenced in the presentation of land title
documents to staff of the Kaduna Zone. He further stated that even though many
staff were initially skeptical about the policy when initially concaved, the
success so far recorded has proved them wrong.
“At the commencement of this scheme, a lot of
staff were cynical and had some misgivings about the projects, success and its
sustainability. But two years down the line, the cynicism and misgivings have
been cleared and the success story is now on the lips of every staff,” he
stated.
Assistant Corps Marshal Darwang called on the
Management to give special consideration for the Kaduna Zone when future
welfare schemes are being implemented in order to cater for the large number of
commands and staff that fall under the zone.
Some of the beneficiaries of the land scheme who
spoke at the event expressed happiness at their being considered, and expressed
confidence with the way the scheme was being managed.
Post Service Scheme is an initiative of the FRSC
Management by which staff contribute certain percentage of their salaries which
would be paid back to them on their retirement from the Corps. Under the
scheme, the contributed funds are invested into Medium Term Loan, Auto Loan and
Landed property for staff who are expected to repay back within a stipulated
time very low interest in the efforts to address immediate and long term
welfare needs of the staff.
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