By Ibrahim Joenal Sesay
FREETOWN, Feb. 24 (232news.com) – One of the leading insurance companies in the country, Globalrisk Insurance Company (GIC) – SL Ltd adhered to its policies with customers nationwide as it presented a Le15.8 Million cheque to a beneficiary at the Susu Gospel Primary School, Madina in Lungi on Tuesday 1st February 2022.
The Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director of GIC, Paul Oparah stated that he is poised to do more to enhance the lives of civil servants so that they can improve their full potentials and achieve their dreams to live a comfortable life with their families, as this is almost impossible to achieve in their daily lives considering the worldwide economic trends.
Paul Oparah disclosed that the company has branches in Makeni, Bo and Kenema with its headquarters at 2 Wellington Street in Freetown. It started operations in 2020. He further stated that the beneficiary’s mother, a teacher of the Susu Gospel Primary School, Madina in Lungi, Late Madam Maseray joined the company in February 2021 and passed away on 23rd December 2021 although company’s contractual agreement to its customers is a year for loan among other services.
According to the Chief Executive Officer, several customers have benefitted from the loan scheme as the procedures were consistent in line with their policies and deceased customer’s families have received their benefits of over Sixty Million Leones (Le 60,000,000) nationwide in the public view of the institutions of the deceased. He stated that the company’s loan scheme is in full operations and that they started granting loans over a year ago to its customers since 2021 and the company has disbursed over Five Hundred Million Leones (Le 500, 000,000) to its customers nationwide. He said that insurance has to with human life as the company’s plan is to support families and also don’t request for collateral as other institutions, adding, “this benefit GIC is paying the deceased joined the scheme 10 months ago and passed away but yet we are today paying Le 15.8 million to the family. The deceased has three children and the eldest has just passed away again today. Our condolence to this family”.
He admonished all to join the insurance that has great benefit for the future and people to utilize such services available around them which the government cannot do alone and therefore encouraged the private sector to design services that will uplift the standard of life of the citizens, adding, “GIC as an institution is bent to improve the lives of all Sierra Leoneans that are eligible to take any of their policies”.
He revealed that the Gobalrisk Insurance Company has life insurance products include; ‘Gentri’ Assurance Plan, Guaranteed Education Assurance Plan among others, and the primary objective of the ‘Gentri’ Assurance Plan is to ensure that the policyholder lives a good life by affording loan facility to the customers to acquire basic household assets, save for the future, as well as providing benefit for dependants in the event death of the customer; and the Guaranteed Education Assurance Plan helps customers save towards future education of their children, as well as providing yearly financial support to the child up to 18 years in the event that the customer dies before then. The husband of the Late Maseray Jalloh, Idriss Mohamed Jalloh acclaimed GIC for its adherence to its policies and called on others to join the company that is real and close to its customers, adding, “all is very pathetic for me on 23rd December 2021 I lost my wife and today again 1st February 2022 I also lost my eldest and can vouch that it is not really easy but it is the test of Allah”. Presentation of the cheques of Le 15.8 Million that are Paul Oparah to the family climaxed the ceremony and other teachers assured to persuade some of their colleagues that don’t join Globalrisk Insurance Company-SL Limited to do as it is a true insurance company that adheres to its policies.
