NDDC to build ‘proper edifice’’ to worship God

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has rolled out plans to build a worship centre in its headquarters.

Speaking at the foundation laying ceremony of the chapel on Wednesday, the NDDC Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, said it was fit and proper to build a befitting place to worship God.

“On resumption of office, when I toured the premises, I was shown a corner in the ancillary building where staff were using for worship and as their chapel,” Ogbuku said as quoted in a statement by the NDDC spokesperson, Seledi Thompson-Wakama.

“I told myself that a facility like the headquarters complex cannot be complete if it did not have a special building for God.

“On December 23, 2023, when we had our end of year thanksgiving, I made a pronouncement that our next thanksgiving would be held in a proper edifice for the worship of God.

“The place will be specially designated and dedicated for Christian worship.”

Ogbuku noted that the Niger Delta region occupies a special place in Nigeria and deserved to have good things.

“I have moved around the country, and you find out that almost all the Federal Government Agencies either have a mosque or a church,” he said.

“How come a region, where we have Christianity as the predominant religion, does not have a place for worship in our own Commission?”

The NDDC MD stated that the chapel will be multipurpose, adding that anyone from the Niger Delta can have access to it with people not only expected to come to the commission to bid for contracts.

According to him, the edifice is going to be for the good of the people of the Niger Delta in general.

“I know that once it is completed and commissioned within the next six months, we will all return here to hold our thanksgiving,” Ogbuku said.

In his prayers at the ceremony, the General Overseer of Salvation Ministries, Pastor David Ibiyeomie, said that by building a chapel for the worship of God, the NDDC had invited the Almighty Father to be in its midst.

“By honouring God, the Commission is attracting more blessings, the Almighty Father has been faithful and merciful to the NDDC and thus deserves to be praised and adored,” Ibiyeomie said.

The cleric offered special prayers for the management and staff of the NDDC, assuring them that God’s favour would follow them because they have reverenced the Almighty Father.

In his remarks, the NDDC Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Alabo Boma Iyaye, thanked the commission’s MD for initiating the chapel project.

Iyaye observed that God had answered the prayers of the staff by bringing the current Board and a Chief Executive Officer that is “God-fearing and eager to make a difference in the Niger Delta region.”