The National Pension Commission (PenCom),
said it has generated over N4.6 trillion in the Contributory Pension
Scheme (CPS), since incep¬tion in 2004.
Speaking at the opening cer¬emony of a
two-day workshop on the 2014 Pension Reform Act (PRA) with the theme:
“New Pension Act 2014, its Implications and Obligations to both
Employers and Employees in Nigeria” organised in collaboration with
Lagos Council of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Direc¬tor-General of
PenCom, Mrs. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, said the coverage of the CPS
included employees in the public service of the federal, states and
local governments as well as the private sector organisa-tions with
three or more employees.
Represented by Mr. Mohammed Bello Umar,
the Com¬mission’s Head of Compliance and Enforcement Department, she
recalled that the pension reform started in 2004 with the passage of PRA
2004, which provided for a uniform pension system for both public and
private sectors.
According to her, “the CPS has been
successfully imple¬mented since then and the fund under management has
grown to about N4.6 trillion while membership is over six million.
She explained that the coverage of the CPS
include employees in the public service of the federal, states and
local governments as well as the private sector organisations with
three or more employees.
The PRA 2014, she added, strengthened the
powers of the commission to perform its mandate of regulation and
supervision of all pension matters, stating that it would fur¬ther
protect and create value for the contributor.
She said, “following the successful passage
of the PRA 2014, PenCom is working towards significantly increasing
the membership of CPS by expanding the coverage to include the informal
sector as well as ensuring that the pen¬sion assets are invested in ways
that are most beneficial to the economy.”
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