By Emmanuel Mensah-Abludo
The outgoing Wa Branch Manager of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Frank Dubi has charged staff to roll up their sleeves and worked assiduously for the success of the Self-Employed Enrollment Department, known as SEED Concept.
The SEED Concept is a move to encourage self-employed persons to join up the SSNIT scheme to also enjoy social protection.
Mr Dubi made the appeal at a send-off party organised in his honour in Wa for serving SSNIT for 37 years.
GBC’s Emmanuel Mensah-Abludo in this report says Mr Frank Dubi who has served SSNIT for 37 years and two months was posted to the Tarkwa District Office on 2nd December 1985 as a clerk after his appointment.
By dint of hard work, he rose through the ranks to became the Wa Branch Manager in June 2020 and he is taking a bow on 31st January 2023.
Mr Dubi’s service to the nation at SSNIT also saw him working in Takoradi, Bolgatanga, Tamale, Kumasi and Akim Oda.
Mr Dubi stressed the need for staff of the Trust to justify their engagement as public servants.
He said: “The recognition given to you is because of your job, it is not because you are thick-tall or you are a very beautiful lady or a handsome young but because of your job.”
“The current state of our institution, what is before us, that is the SEED Concept that has been introduced as part of our operations. Please, I will urge you all, let us all get involved and make it to succeed,” he observed.
Mr Dubi is credited with initiatives that have crystallized into policy directives of SSNIT management.
The Tamale Branch Manager of SSNIT, Albert Owusu-Boateng who read the work profile of Mr. Dubi shared some of the legacy initiatives.
They included, “the introduction of Reference Numbers as interim Social Security Numbers for the validation and processing of members accounts in the year 2001”, “the introduction of Flyers in the operations of the Trust with Mr. George Akuako, the current Compliance Supervisor at the Hohoe Branch in the year 2002”, as well as “the introduction of Reconciliation Template for operations and accounts popularly known as the DUBAM System together with Mr. Anthony Mills who currently our retirement in the year 2003”.
The retiring Wa Branch Manager advised to take advantage of durbars to share ideas to to be Incorporated policies of SSNIT.
Citations were presented Mr Dubi for his dedicated service to SSNIT in particular and the nation in general.
Among the dignitaries of the Trust who attended the function were the Area Manager of Tamale, Festus Darko-Preko; the Goaso Branch Manager, Ms Martha Tuuli; and the Asafo Branch Manager, Henry Imoru.
Others are the Gambaga Branch Manager, Ernest Blam and the Branch Manager of Bolgatanga, Kwaku Twumasi.
