The Managing Director, NDIC, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim who stated this at the opening session of a seminar for external solicitors of the corporation added that the corporation would continue to collaborate with the judiciary to ensure effective discharge of its mandate and contribute to financial system stability in the country.
The seminar with the theme, ‘Challenges to deposit insurance law and practice in Nigeria’ is part of efforts by the corporation to sensitise stakeholders to the practice of deposit insurance.
Umaru observed with concern that a large segment of the Nigerian public had a wrong perception about the corporation and its statutory mandate. He said this had made the corporation to invest resources to reverse the trend through effective and continuous public awareness and close collaboration with key stakeholders.
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He said, “One of the major challenges confronting the corporation in the discharge of its mandate is public awareness.
“We have observed with concern that most of the Nigerian public have a misconceived perception of the corporation and its functions.
“The corporation has invested valuable resources in ensuring that this negative trend is reversed in line with its strategy of enhancing public awareness.
“Matters of litigation have always been problematic generally and it’s the entire judicial process that made it so and not peculiar to the NDIC and having gone through this programme, the judges and the lawyers, I believe there is a better understanding of issues involved.”
He added that while the litigation process had been slow, the corporation was currently taking advantage of the alternative dispute resolution mechanism to get justice.