Two insurance Firms, African Alliance
Insurance and Mutual Benefit Life Assurance recently paid a total of
N12.24 million to the leadership of the Redeemed Christian Church of God
and Redeemers University (RUN) as claims for group life insurance of
their workers.
According to information obtained from
the Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA), RCCG got N8.05 million claims
from African Alliance Insurance Plc while Redeemers University got N4.19
million from Mutual Benefits Life Assurance Limited.
The Global General Overseer of the
Church, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, said as part of welfare package for the
church workers, the church had intended to run a stipulated lifetime 100
per cent salaries to its pensioners, stressing that the initiative was
halted by the government.
“For example, when I decided on what
will be the pension of our pastors, what I decided is not done anywhere
in the world. That somebody will retire and continue to earn full
salaries all his lifetime.
“This, I started, but government stepped in and made a law that we should be contributing to pension fund.
“We have to obey and we started doing
that. The result is that pastors don’t get as much as they were getting
under our own previous arrangement.
“We have to obey and we started doing
that. The result is that pastors don’t get as much as they were getting
under our own previous arrangement. But, what can we do? We have to obey
the law,” he said.
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