Group lament non-payment of insurance to dead students' families

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March 7, 2016 10:57 AM

The association expressed their displeasure that despite the exorbitant rate charged by these insurance industry, no move has been made to compensate families of students who lost their lives

National Association of Nigerian Students

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has bemoaned the death of their members nationwide while lamenting the fact that insurance companies have refused to pay claims to the families of the deceased.

According to Leadership, the association expressed their displeasure that despite the exorbitant rate charged by these insurance industry, no move has been made to compensate families of students who lost their lives as a result of illness or the ghastly accident.

NANS senate president, Comrade Royce Odoh Ochai, speaking to journalists in Jos, urged management of tertiary institutions in the country to wake up to their responsibilities.

He said, “We have watched with keen interest the recent happenings on our campuses, most especially the high rate at which we lost our beloved student(s) through accident and sickness.

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“It is a very sad development that virtually all campuses in Nigeria, both federal and state institutions, ranging from monotechnics, polytechnics, colleges of educations and universities receives huge amount of money from Nigerian students compulsorily for the purpose of insurance, but it is highly disappointing that such fee are not being used for what they are meant for.

“We lost many of our students of recent and it is so disheartened that even at the exorbitant rate we paid for Insurance policy, the management of institution cannot compel these unseen insurance brokers to pay claims or benefits to the victims of this untimely death.

“The leadership of NANS shall henceforth take the bull by the horn as we shall not hesitate to demand compensation(s) from the school management to the families of the victims if such occurs, or better still we shall demand that the school management produce the insurance company in charge.”

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