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Chuks Udo Okonta
Having successfully steered and projected the image of the broking fraternity, the outgoing President of the Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB) Dr. (Mrs.) Bola Onigbogi, has presented her accounts of stewardship.
She made the presentation at the NCRIB Members’ Evening that was hosted by Unitrust Insurance Company Limited yesterday in Lagos. She expressed gratitude to God Almighty and also to her professional colleagues for their staunch supports, whilst acknowledging that in spite the daunted challenges that were faced, the bar of progressive records of the Council had been elevated to such an enviable height.
“I must put on records that the last two years has been eventful and challenging; bothering primarily on the global economy occasioned by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. We went through it, but praise to God Almighty, we are here today to tell the story of how we scaled through.
“I must express my appreciation for the confidence, support and cooperation that I enjoyed from you since my emergence as the second female and 20th President of the Council. May I appreciate members of the Management Committee, the Governing Board and all Registered Insurance Brokers under the aegis of the NCRIB,” she said.
Dr. Onigbogi posited that at the wake of her administration, her team took a strong position that the Council’s image needs to be projected to the limelight in such a way that no one should mistake insurance broking profession to mean a Stock Broker, adding that although things could be better, and that the Council could be more efficient in terms of service delivery and value addition, her tenure pursued vigorously through various strategies that was deployed by the team.
“The task of leading our Council and sustaining the finest legacies of professionalism and adherence to ethics envisaged by our founding fathers, has been rewarding; as with your support we have modestly turned some of the perceived obstacles to stepping stones for success.
“I am persuaded beyond reasonable doubts that the herculean tasks of ensuring that ours is an enviable profession has been sustained and in the finest tradition of the NCRIB’s structure, that image projection will continue unabatedly until everyone can identify with Insurance Brokers for all their Insurances,” she added.
She remarked that in continuation with the actualisation of the administration’s policy thrust and in view of the need to effectively collaborate with opinion moulders, the Council has continued to connect with strategic stakeholders. “It will be recalled that the Council engaged the likes of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the Osun State Governor, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, FCIB, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, and conferred on them, the status of NCRIB Ambassadors.
“I am most pleased to state that the Council has further conferred the NCRIB Ambassadorial Status on another first class traditional ruler, Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero.
“Through the visit to the Palace of the Emir and Kano major market, we used the opportunity to apprise audience of the importance of Insurance as well as sensitised them with the advantages derivable from utilizing insurance brokers for all their Insurance transactions,” she stated.
According to her, realising that the greatest asset that any regime or organisation could bequeath its professional members is to pay considerable attention to human capital development, her administration vowed to pay significant attention to the promotion and growth of the Council’s members and younger insurance broking professionals through a well-articulated training and mentorship programmes.
We deliberately designed trainings and activities that eventually exposed them to the nitty-gritty of insurance broking profession. The most recent of this was the maiden edition of NCRIB Non-CEOs Associate Empowerment Series. We will continue to doggedly pursue the desire to have members trained, she submitted.
The outgoing President maintained that no doubt, her administration recorded some modest level of success in the last two years, but not without a few challenges which they conquered with wisdom and understanding.
She posited that they inculcated good attitude and morally sound responses to situations, adding that they deployed technology innovatively within the uncontrollable constraints such as COVID-19 and ensured that they did all what was there to be done in the right order.
She congratulated the Managing Director of Unitrust Insurance Company Limited, John ijerheime and his team for their success stories so far, while assuring them that their profile and account would soar after the meeting with brokers.
