Let’s Work Together To Move Insurance Industry Forward – IICC Chairman

The Chairman of Insurance Industry Consultative Committee (IICC) and President/Chairman of Governing Council, Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigerian (CIIN) Sir Muftau Oyegunle (standing) addressing Journalists at the arrival dinner of 2021 IICC Media Retreat College of Insurance and Financial Management CIFM), Asese, Ogun State at the weekend.

The Chairman of Insurance Industry Consultative Committee (IICC) and President/Chairman of Governing Council, Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigerian (CIIN) Sir Muftau Oyegunle, has enjoined journalists covering insurance industry to join forces with the operators to move the industry forward through their reports and analyses.

Sir Oyegunle made the call in his remarks during the 2021 IICC Media Retreat, organised for members of the National Association of Insurance and Pension Corresponds. (NAIPCO) arrival dinner held at the College of Insurance and Financial Management CIFM), Asese, Ogun State at the weekend.

He said the job of growing insurance industry is a collective responsibility and should not be left for practitioners alone and urged journalists to play their roles through constructive and conscious reports to encourage people to take insurance.

According to him, the essence of coming together like this is to learn from each other and see what we can do together to move the insurance industry forward. I want to challenge you all that when you talk about insurance penetration, you make it sound like if it’s a problem for we practitioners alone. It is not so. You journalists owe us a duty – if there’s anything we can do, tell us. Make conscious reports that will encourage people to take insurance.

“If all you write about the industry is all on the negative side or that the companies are not paying claims. We are not saying that companies should not pay claims because claims payment is the beauty of insurance.

“Writing negative stories about the industry, certainly is not helping the industry. Again, let us work together and move the industry forward. No doubt about it that it is insurance that helps economies develop globally. If we get insurance right in Nigeria, it will move people out of poverty.

“So, anything this industry is doing is not in the Interest of those of us that are practitioners, it is in the interest of all Nigerians. Let’s come together, discuss and generate ideas that will help the industry and the country at large so that by the time we’re coming back next year, we would have moved an inch forward.”

The Insurance Industry Consultative Committee (IICC) was designed to unite and promote common interest among the various arms of the sector.

Also at the dinner were  the CIIN Director-General, Mrs Abimbola Tiamiyu; Executive Secretary, Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB), Mr. Tope Adaramola; Head, Corporatr Communications and Human Resources, Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA) Mr. Davis Iyasere, and some of the facilitators, Executive Director Media Career Development Network, Mr. Lekan Otufodurin and MD,  Afriglobal Insurance Brokers, Mr. Casmir Azubuike,