NASSIT Targets Informal Economy
Sources reaching SEM have revealed that The National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), has embarked on a nationwide sensitization of people in the informal sector economy, such as petty traders, Bike riders, fishermen, and photographers, among others, on the inherent benefits in the scheme.
The sensitization meeting reportedly took place at the Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) new Hall in Freetown on the 7th of September this year.
Welcoming the participants, the Head of Public Affairs, Prince Amadu, said that his institution was established in 2001 by an Act of Parliament to administer pensions but it came to full scale operation in 2002, when employers started paying money for their workers and he mentioned that the Act did not exempt the informal sector.
He pointed out that the current Director General of NASSIT, Sedu Mans, has laid great emphasis on bringing on board the informal sector, which he described as the largest contributors to the national economy, adding that the rationale behind the engagement was not only to get these people registered and their names inserted into the data base but also to get them fully involved, because the informal sector is covered by the Act that brought NASSIT into existence.
The Coordinator, Informal Sector Unit, Mrs Emma Lappia, spoke on the way NASSIT carried out the formal sector membership drive and that they would not afford, this time round, to leave behind the informal sector which she described as the mover of the economy.
She furthered that only one thousand two hundred (1,200) people from the informal sector are enrolled with NASSIT and she, therefore, called on workers from the informal sector to register with the institution and be socially protected.
By Abdulai Mento Kamara
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