The training, which started on 1st
December at the secretariat of the Insurance Association of the Gambia (IAG) in
Banjul, brought together motor and claims managers of member companies of the
IAG and it availed them the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the new
brown card in preparation of its introduction.
The Brown Card |
“Training is designed to acquaint motor and claims
managers with the Ecowas Brown Card Insurance Scheme because these are the
people who deal with the public as they are the ones who sell the card and
handle claims that come in,” said Ebou L Bittaye, Chairman of the Gambia
National Bureau.
The Ecowas Brown Card allows the free movement of
people and goods within the Economic Community of West African States
(ECOWAS). The card provides compensation
to victims of motor vehicle accidents, which may occur while travelling within
the sub-region. It also provides
insurance cover for third-party liability risks relating to accidents resulting
in death and /or bodily injury and property damage.
Mr Bittaye, who is also the managing director of
Global Security Insurance Company Limited said:
“Training is a very important component of the insurance profession as
it helps us to broaden and refresh our mind as well as help us to adapt to
changes thereby making us versatile, dynamic and by extension impact positively
in our overall performance.”
“This training is a welcome initiative by the
national bureau,” said Mr Dawda Sarge, President of the IAG. “The training is to re-orientate you (the
participants); we are not saying you people don’t know about the brown card,
but why this [training] is simply because we need to be properly oriented; we
need to be properly sensitized as to what the brown card talks about,
importance and of course to understand why the protocol dictates its
introduction.”
The brown card insurance scheme was established by
protocol A/P1/5/82 by the ECOWAS Commission and signed by Heads of State of
member countries on 29 May 1982 in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, in cognizance of
the fact that no regional integration is viable unless some security guarantees
are provided for the road users. The
scheme was established for an automatic cover and the settlement of claims
arising from cross-border road traffic.
Mr Sarge, who is also the managing director of Prime
Insurance Company, said the training is the second step, nationally, for the
introduction of the new card. The first
step, he said, was the publication of articles, in newspapers, about the new
card, which was done some three weeks ago.
He said the brown card is the most successful
initiative of the sub-region and it is also said to be one of the most
successful instruments of integrating Ecowas.
For his part, Mr Henry Jawo, secretary general of
the National Bureau of Ecowas Brown Card, urged the participants to ask
questions and clarify any doubt they might have with regards to brown card in
order to make their operations very easy.
Previous speakers commended the Gambia national
bureau under the leadership of Mr Jawo for coming up with “this wonderful
training package”.
The Gambia has made a very good impact within the
sub-region as far as the brown card is concern as Mr Jawo is currently
representing the country at the highest level which is the executive board of
the brown card scheme, the highest decision-making board with regards to brown
card.
He told the participants that the new brown card
would certainly help in strengthening, fast-tracking and simplifying the
process for claims settlements.
The new brown card is to be introduced in January
2012 because the old card was easily
being forged, as many instances of faked cards were discovered
in the region. This necessitated the introduction of a new card with improved
security features. The new card has security features embedded in it which are
not visible but by naked eyes.
Delivering the vote of thanks on behalf of
participants at the training, Marian Gomez of the International Insurance
Company lauded the national bureau for coming up with the initiative and prayed
for the success of the new brown car. Gomez assured the organizers of their
utmost participation in order to garner as much knowledge as possible.
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