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NAICOM Forecloses Bailout For Ailing Insurance Firms

by Haruna Magaji
November 7, 2016
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Following the financial crisis weighing down the fortunes of some insurance companies, the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has foreclosed the possibility of assisting them financially through a bailout arrangement.

The regulator said under insurance, the law did not make any provision for financial bailout to assist ailing underwriting firms. Assistant Director, Inspectorate at the Commission, Mr. Adamu Ahmad, disclosed this in Gombe last week.

Instead, he said that insurance companies should work hard to bail out themselves before seeking external help. “Under insurance, the law does not give us power to bail out ailing insurance companies.

“Before you even talk of bailout, the companies should be able to bail themselves out. We have seen the problems with bailout,” he said. NAICOM’s position conflicts with that of the banking sector where ailing lenders have been rescued financially through bailout and outright take over through the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).

Ahmad said that apart from the law foreclosing it in the case of insurance, the Commission does not also believe in Nigeria using its resources to fund reckless spending by the board and management of any organisation.

The assistant director maintained this position following the critical state of some insurance companies that are currently under regulatory intervention.

Some of the firms involved are International Energy Insurance, Investment and Allied, Goldlink Insurance, Industrial and General Insurance, and UnityKapital, among others.

Investigation conducted by NAICOM revealed massive manipulations of shares and reckless spending by the board and management of the companies.

Only last week, the Commissioner for Insurance, Mohammed Kari, disclosed that some board members of insurance companies falsely acquired shares without paying for them.

He specifically said one of the fraudulent chairmen had refunded N66 million to the coffers of an insurance company as part of what he wrongly appropriated.

Recall that the interim management board of Goldlink Insurance Plc, set up by NAICOM, in a share capital audit that looked into the activities of the former management, observed that about 2.5 billion shares were inappropriately issued to selected shareholders.

A report of investigation carried out by the Commission revealed that to support the creation of the bubble shares, the head office building and other assets of the company were revalued and inflated by about N1.5 billion.

The revaluation surplus was used in part to create these shares against sound accounting standards and principles. So far, the interim management board has recovered 1.2 billion shares through voluntary surrender and about 134 million shares by way of forfeiture.

It was also discovered that about 1.2 billion share unit were disposed of by some of the beneficiaries, while the interim management board has commenced the process of recovering the disposed shares and associated dividends of about N125 million.

Read more at https://newtelegraphonline.com/naicom-forecloses-bailout-for-ailing-insurance-firms/

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Haruna Magaji is a journalist, foreign policy expert and closet musician. He is a graduate of ABU Zaria and a member of the Nigerian union of journalists. JSA, as he is fondly called, resides in Suleja, Abuja. email him at - harunamagaji@financialwatchngr.com

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