By Standard Digital Reporter
NAIROBI, KENYA: Social Security Provider National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has officially withdrawn the use of its age-old fingerprints based registration system following the integration of cutting edge information technology based systems.
The obsolete manual fingerprints registration system synonymous with NSSF has now been retired in favour of modern registration systems with a capacity to save the fund more than shs 1.6billion in administrative costs.
According to NSSF Managing Trustee Tom Odongo, the fund has been strategically modernizing its ICT infrastructure to facilitate quality and efficient service delivery to its members against global benchmarks.
The integration of new generation ICT systems, Odongo further said has also facilitated the rollout of a Voluntary Early Retirement Scheme (VERS) allowing long serving members of staff to exit the organisation under an attractive package. Already, more than 300 members of staff have exited NSSF under the VERS programme with a further 200 applications now under consideration.
While reacting to recent misleading media reports, Odongo denied that the fund had sacked 500 members of staff, clarifying that the on-going early retirement programme is purely voluntary.
