The Nigerian Correctional Service, (NCoS) said that it spent N697, 353, 617 to cater for the welfare of serving, retired and deceased personnel under the Correctional Welfare Insurance Scheme, (CWIS).
Controller General of the Service, Haliru Nababa, explained that the CWIS is a staff contributory scheme of the service aimed at providing succour to personnel during accidents in the course of the discharge of their duty, during retirement or in the event of death while in active service among others.
Speaking at the 17th anniversary workshop of the scheme themed ‘Making Retirement a Happy Experience’ yesterday in Abuja, Nababa said “We attach a lot of importance to this annual CWIS workshop for obvious reasons.
According to him, between January to December 2022, the scheme paid 242 death claims to the tune of three hundred and thirty million, five hundred and twenty-Two Thousand, Four Hundred and Eighty-eight naira (₦330, 522, 488:00) while medical claims worth eighty-six million, one hundred and thirteen thousand, eight hundred and ninety naira (₦86, 113, 890:00), was spent for those who sustained various degrees of injuries in the line of duty.
