UPDATED: New President Of NCRIB, Barr Rotimi Edu Unveils Agenda ‘Broker Centricism’
The newly inaugurated President and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Could of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB), Barrister Oluwarotimi Edu, has unveiled the agenda of his administration which he said will focus on “Broker Centricism”.
Barr. Rotimi Edu made the disclosure in his acceptance speech during his investiture as the 21st President/Chairmen of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB) in Lag yesterday.
According to him, As we are all aware, our Council as a critical player in the nation’s financial ecosystem has a lot of opportunities, as well as besetting challenges at the moment. This requires that the leadership team under my humble self must be purposeful, selfless, focused and decisive in accompanying the tasks ahead.
“While admitting that leadership is a continuum, requiring that every successive tenure builds on the previous ones, it behooves my tenure to evolve a well-conceived thrust of office, which ultimately would become the trajectory of office and benchmark for my accomplishments in office.
“Having engaged in wide range consultations amongst members of the Council and some seasoned and well-meaning professionals, I have come up with BROKER CENTRICISM as the focus of my tenure as President. This focus connotes that the Insurance Brokers’ welfare, progress and development, irrespective of their location
and sizes would be the vortex of all decisions and actions that would be taken throughout this tenure, God helping me.”
He said his administration would be driven by Financial Solvency; Professionalism; Strategic Government and Institutional Relations; Mentoring; Corporate Visibility Sustenance and Secretariat Development.
“As an embodiment of this focus, my team would also have the following thrusts;
Financial Solvency: There is a common saying that no man or institution suffers financial destitution, rather they suffer from destitution of ideas. It is the intention of my team to be highly creative in stimulating ideas that would lead to financial solvency of the Council aside from the traditional subscription of members which is fast dwindling. It follows that if individual insurance brokers would be solvent, the Council must make strident efforts to ensure it complements all relevant institutions, including NAICOM for the deepening of the insurance sector. The bigger the larger pie by the industry, the bigger the portion that accrues to the insurance broking sub sector.
“Professionalism: It is no longer news that the hallmark of all professions in is the continuous acquisition of knowledge and openness to new and evolving knowledge. The Insurance Broker can definitely not be an exception. This tenure would open channels of training needs for it members within and outside the country. While reinforcing ties with already existing institutions in the country and without, we would also open up relationship with new ones. Being the main professional in the insurance value chain, the Broker under my tenure would be an encyclopedia of knowledge and professionalism.
“Strategic Government and Institutional Relations: It is noteworthy that the Council has recorded phenomenal feats in strategic government relations under the immediate administration. Doors in Government Houses, Palaces and renowned institutions were opened for the NCRIB. However, since the largest room in life is the room of improvement, this tenure would open new vistas of qualitative relationship with more government institutions with a view to registering the brand of the Broker in their consciousness as valuable allies.
“Mentoring: It is the intention of my team to ensure that Insurance Broking does not go into extinction through deliberate mentoring of the younger generation of operators. This we would do by stimulating the interest of the younger scholars in insurance broking right from their school days. We would device strategic plans to reach out to educational institutions across the country and create awards and scholarships to those who have inclination towards Insurance Broking as a career.
“Corporate Visibility Sustenance: As it is often said that image is everything, the current leadership team would sustain the corporate visibility initiatives of the Council. In doing this, we shall tweak strategies for identifying and reaching out to more corporate institutions outside the remit of those we have already reached out to to generate more news items for the media. We would also deploy our vast contacts with the media to enhance the Broker’s brand in the consciousness of Nigerians.
“Secretariat Development: Realising the fact that the Secretariat is the engine room for effective discharge of the set mandate of this tenure, this tenure would improve the quality and content of the secretariat’s human resource. It is our intention to train, retrain and motivate our staff for them to be at per with their contemporaries in high flying related institutions.”
While commending the outgoing President for Dr. (Mrs) Bola Onigbogi for her strides, he solicited the support of all and sundry for the success of his administration.
