NSITF denies claims over ECSA platform, assures employers of data security

October 14, 2026October 14, 2026

By Chesa Chesa

The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has dismissed reports by Sahara Reporters concerning its Electronic Compliance and Safety Application (ECSA), insisting that the platform is its intellectual property and that employers’ data remain secure.

The Fund also assured employers that certification services remain operational, adding that measures were underway to strengthen system safeguards and ensure continuity during the handover process.

In a press statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, the NSITF management said the report published by Sahara Reporters on October 11 relied largely on anonymous sources and contained claims it described as inaccurate or misleading.

The statement was signed by the Head of the Corporate Affairs Department of the NSITF.

The Fund maintained that ECSA was conceived, developed and deployed internally, stressing that its intellectual property belongs entirely to the NSITF.

It rejected suggestions that the platform was copied or rebranded from the intellectual property of P2E Technologies Limited, noting that ECSA was developed independently of the E-NSITF Project awarded to the company on April 25, 2022.

According to the Fund, the failure of the E-NSITF Project to deliver a functional electronic certification system prompted it to upgrade an existing in-house data harmonisation tool into ECSA.

On concerns about the control and security of employers’ information, the NSITF said all data captured on the platform reside on its own database infrastructure, with administrative and privileged access restricted to designated officers.

“No employer data has been lost, copied, transferred or exposed,” the management assured employers, employees and the general public.

It added that the handling of employers’ information complies with the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023.

The Fund also dismissed claims that the platform had been shut down by an officer who subsequently became unreachable, insisting that certification services remained available and had not been disrupted.

It explained that the directive to recapture company records from April 2026 was a planned business-continuity and data-validation measure designed to ensure the continued issuance of compliance certificates while the handover process was being completed.