Tinubu: Over 6,000 family members of Slain soldiers to get insurance claims

The president, Bola Tinubu, ordered the Group Life Insurance claims, which will benefit no less than 6,732 relatives of Nigerian Army personnel.

The recipients are the kin of those who died in duty between 2011 and 2022.

During a conversation with our correspondent on Wednesday, Brig. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, director of Army Public Relations, revealed this.

There are around 6, 732 group life insurance beneficiaries, he stated. From 2011 until 2022, this.

On Wednesday, Tinubu ordered that all unpaid Group Life Assurance payments owed to the families of fallen soldiers be made without delay, according to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja.

The head of the Army observed that the insurance firms declined to pay the claims because there were unpaid premiums.

In an effort to give the families of the fallen servicemen some relief, he claimed that the president had cleared all backlogs.

“We have a backlog between the years 2012 and 2022 when claims were not paid and some persons died while serving the country,” Lagbaja added. Due to the insurance companies’ lack of freedom to pay claims for unpaid premiums, the federal government decided to act now to clear the backlog and provide relief to the families of our lost colleagues.