Lagos State Presents N475 Million Cheque To 189 Families Of Deceased Staff

Lagos State Presents N475 Million Cheque To 189 Families Of Deceased Staff

The Lagos State government has presented insurance benefits worth
Four Hundred and Seventy-Five Million Naira (N475m) to 189 family
members of deceased staff of the State Universal Basic Education Board,
SUBEB and Local Government Councils across the State.

Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Muslim
Folami who presided over the presentation ceremony, advised the
beneficiaries of the Insurance benefits to utilise the money in securing
the future of the bereaved children and also support other dependents.

He said that the approval for the payment of the benefits was in line
with the inclusive policy of the State Government and also as a result
of the determination of the present Administration to ameliorate the
sufferings of the dependants of the deceased staff.

“Let me assure everyone that the present administration will not
hesitate to carry all her civic rights on every member of her workforce
because this administration has the interest of everyone at heart”, the
Commissioner restated.

He maintained that the State Government would always ensure that
benefits of the deceased were paid directly to the beneficiaries,
stressing that since the inception of the payment, the present
administration had not relented.