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NUJ Lauds NDDC On Lightning Up Bayelsa – As Bayelsans Urged To Protect,Maintain NDDC,s Projects
By David Owei, Bayelsa.
The Chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists, Bayelsa State Council, Tonye Yemoleigha has commended the Niger Delta Development Commission for lighting up Bayelsa.
He also thanked the board for indulging in other corporate social responsibilities especially in the education sector which he said will help and uplift the region later in life.
Speaking on Thursday in Yenagoa when the council paid a courtesy call on Godknows Alameiseigha, the state representative and director of NDDC, Yemoleigha maintained that operation light up Bayelsa was a welcomed development.
He however pleaded with the board to do more especially in the rural communities maintaining that because their presence is not all that felt in the rural communities, it seems that they are not doing more.
He promised more collaboration with the board adding that the relationship will go a long way to sanitizing the society.
He said:” The job of the media is to hold political office holders and the government to account and to also highlight their achievements so that development can be felt by the people.
“We owe it as a duty to report criminal activities and partner with security agencies to see how we can reduce criminality and that is what we have been doing in our engagement.
“We are all pointing at the directions of development including NDDC and it is only when we have that understanding and synergy that we will do a lot together for the good of our people.
“We will deepen this relationship and we ask our people to always be law abiding and own projects.When you see one, be it projects from government or interventionist agencies like NDDC,you don’t need to vandalize them.
“While everybody is talking development in your community you shouldn’t be the one to take away development from you community.”
Speaking earlier, the state director of Nigeria Delta Development Commission, Bayelsa State, Godknows Alameyeseigha had asked the media to help in sensitizing the populace on the need to secure projects sighted in their domains.
He said that it is only when the citizens do so that projects will be started and finished adding that some parts of the projects are always removed before they are completed
Maintaining that NDDC projects are not always abandoned but stalled, he said that some of those issues arise because of constant change of baton in the board stating that the current managing director should be allowed to stay and do more.
Thanking President Bola Tinubu for appointing Samuel Ogbuku as the managing director of NDDC, he asked for more synergy between the board and Bayelsa State Government to enable them achieve the aim of developing the state.
He said: “We should educate our people on the need to own our projects and not vandalize the projects. Look at this operation light up Bayelsa, could you believe that people are going to remove the solar lights.
“Our people can’t go to rural communities now for that project because militant are on the river.”
He pleaded with the state and local government to look after the projects already sited by NDDC maintaining that after building, the projects are always handed over to the state and local governments to manage.
Maintaining that NDDC can’t handle all the projects with only 164 billion naira that is yearly allocated to the state, he called on the state government to collaborate with the board so that most of these projects can be initiated and actualized.
“State Government should advise which community should have what project. Our national Assembly members should also try their best adding that boards should be allowed to stay for sometime before being dissolved instead changing them at intervals.
“We should forget our party affiliations and come together, form a synergy to build our state.
“I commission you Journalists today to be project monitoring ambassadors. Help us to monitor these projects and sensitize the populace so that the society will be a better place to stay.”
By George Mgbeleke
The Managing Director of Laralek Ultimate Construction Company , Olalekan Adebiyi has debunked media reports on purported roof leakage at the white house segment of the National Assembly on Friday during storming downpour .
An online platform had in the early hours of Saturday , reported that the violently storming rain that fell on Friday , made mince meat of renovation work carried out by one of the subsidiaries of Laralek (Visible Construction Company ) on roofs and other areas of the National Assembly complex from 2022 to 2024.
The online medium in the report alleged that some staff of the National Assembly lamented that if the N38billion renovation work was given to Julius Berger , there wouldn’t have been problem of roof leakage again during rain fall , positing that the Federal Capital Development Authority( FCDA) that awarded the contract to Visible Construction Company , compromised .
But hours after the publication , the Managing Director of Laralek Ultimate Construction Company , Olalekan Adebiyi in a telephone conversation with journalists covering the National Assembly said the report was fake as investigation carried out by them through their subsidiary company used to execute the contract ( Visible Construction),, revealed that there was no leakage from the roof at the White House segment of the National Assembly
According to him, Amothene , imported from United States of America ( USA) and applied to the points of leakages on the roof , is water tight and can never leak .
” The report to us , is unfounded and simply put , bad belle because if it was Julius Berger that carried out the renovation work , no such fake report , will be written against it .
” I wonder why some Nigerians always like to be enemies of their fellow country men for no good reason whatsoever .
“We checked and found out that it was an ingress of water that came through the Smaller windows at the upper part of the Chamber Building that flooded the floor and not roof leakage .
” The said story or report , has no single picture of points of leakages from the roof which to us , is very unprofessional and unethical .
“The report is fake as there was no leakage from any point on the roof. We did a good job and stand by it and shall surely be vindicated as more and more rains will still fall in the coming weeks and months “, he said .
General News
Imbibe the culture of humility, love, sacrifice Says, Apostle Godfrey Omodubor – as BMNA honours him
By David Owei, Baylesa
Pastors have been advised to imbibed the culture of humility, love and sacrifice towards their members and the society in general.
This was handed down on Sunday by Apostle Godfrey Omodubor at the Faith Gospel Revival Deliverance Ministries Worldwide in Eteqwe, Yenagoa the bayelsa state capital during an award ceremony in his honour.
The award which was bestowed on him by the organizers of the most prestigious award, the Bayelsa Media Network Award (B.M.N.A) as the “Prophet of the Year 2025″ due to his outstanding love and care for the people.
Prophet Godfrey Omodubor said, he was honoured by the award and it is a call to do more for the society.
” I was not expecting it neither did I solicited for it, but as it please God to honour me this way, I must say am very happy and God will empower me to do more”.
” If God called you, he will back you up and give you all that you needed to succeed. It only required patience, endurance and hard work. God is not a magician neither is God a debtor, he paid everyone at the right time and in due season”.
He thanked the organizers for deeming it fit to recognize his little contributions to the society.
Presenting the award, the Project Manager, Bayelsa Media Network Award Mr. Blessing Ozegbe said, the award was as a result of Apostle Godfrey Omodubor contributions to the development of society in general.
The Project Manager described the man of God as a faithful and hardworking man, saying despite being a spiritual Father he still reachout to people within and outside his domain.
“We have been observing him from far and from investigation and testimonies of people around, his is truly a man of God full of humility and respect for both young and old alike. His character is worth emulating and I pray that other men of God will learn from him.
“This is an award that is not commonly given and because we couldn’t find a worthy person last year, this category was suspended and by the grace of God this year, we discovered this man of humility, full of love and sacrifice to be given the award “.
He encourage the man of God not relent in doing good to people and to see his calling as a genuine call from God.
The award ceremony was witnessed by his large congregation and visitors which also happened to be his birthday.
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