Nyusi urges enrolment of citizens living abroad into INSS
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Monday challenged the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security to boost the enrolment of citizens living and working in the diaspora into the social security system, in order to match the investments taking place in the country.
The president launched the challenge this Monday, during the inauguration of the Delegation of the National Social Security Institute (INSS) in Metuge district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
The Ministry, he added, must also rigorously improve the mechanisms to recover debts from companies that have taken social security contributions from their workers, but failed to channel them to the INSS. Mozambican trade unions have protested for years against this form of employers stealing from their workers, which deprives them of the benefits their contributions should have paid for.
“We want to take this opportunity to raise the awareness of our fellow citizens who reside in the Republic of South Africa, where the process is already underway to join the INSS as a way to ensure their subsistence in situations of lack or reduced capacity for work”, the president said.
Nyusi also advised the INSS to adopt an increasingly sophisticated corporate management system so that the institution is freed from all the damaging activities of which it has been a victim (he was referring to repeated scandals in which corrupt staff have stolen large sums of money from the INSS).
“Manage well the public good and consolidate the process of modernization and computerization of the social security system now under way”, Nyusi urged.
(AIM)
