Succession: Shola gives NCRIB a ten-year ‘rolling’ plan
Poised to ensure succession planning and sustainable policies and development in insurance broking industry, the President, Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB), Shola Tinubu, has introduced a ten-year rolling plan for the Council.
The NCRIB boss who made the disclosure recently during a press conference in Lagos said the ten-year development plan is part of his administration’s policy thrust which he said has already received the blessing of his successors and past president and leaders of the council.
While speaking on his administration’s plans for the Council, be said “This definitely brings me to the succession planning for the Council’s leadership to sustain a steady and consistent progress. I am most delighted to note that policy and thrusts to be implemented by this administration already has the buy-in of Past President and leadership, based on their active involvement and input,”
He added, “The intention of this administration is to bequeath a 10-year development plan to the Council that will outlive the tenures of more than five Presidents. This is based on the conviction that for any institution to develop, it must have sustainable plans and goals that would subsist over time. I promise that this team will hit the ground running with this, and with the support of all, we shall succeed.
While reiterating his administration’s resolve to give a level of independence to the Secretariat, he vowed to improve the value of the brokers in the industry as well as expose the staff to further trainings for improved service delivery to members.
His words, “if there is anything that has occupied the minds of many members of the Council for a while now, it is how the NCRIB could accelerate its value rendition to members.
“I like to note that the agitation of members in this regard was not wrongly placed, considering the challenges they face on all ends, necessitating immediate collective solution from the Council.
“Our team would be quite strategic in first identifying in clear terms the immediate and future challenges threatening Brokers.
“We shall deploy strategies to engage besetting problems such as captive agency network; direct marketing, quackery, unfriendly legislations, as well as the impact of technology on our practice,” Tinubu said.
While promising an all-inclusive administration he said, “we shall take time to provide opportunities for resourceful members to serve on committees of the Council, based on the criteria of availability, resourcefulness, experience, competence and ethical values.
He added that some standing committees of the Council have been rejigged to give more pragmatic results that will change the narrative of the Council and the Broking industry.
He also disclosed that his regime would stop at nothing to ensure that the Secretariat, under the Executive Secretary, takes its focal position as the face of the Council and its membership. According to him in doing this, members would be able to relate as equals, having in mind that they have a neutral arbiter in the Secretariat.
He said his administration is poised to give required impetus to the Secretariat in the area of staff training and retraining, in order to enhance their morale and imbue in them the wherewithal to effectively serve members with utmost competence.
He said his team will unselfishly devote ample time to training and development of the secretariat staff to drive value for members.
