The commissioner representing Rivers state on the board of the Niger Delta Commission (NDDC), Dr Chukwudi Dimkpa, has explained why he decided to embark on building mosque for Muslims in Rivers state.
Dr. Dimkpa stated that the gesture is in fulfillment of his corporate social responsibility to society in keeping with his desire to encourage unity, religious tolerance, freedom of worship and peaceful coexistence among people of all faith and beliefs living in our society.
He stated this Thursday when he visited the site of the ongoing construction of a central mosque in lsiokpo in lkwerre local government area of Rivers state.
The NDDC Rivers representative was accompanied on the inspection tour by the Chief lmam of lsiokpo, Alhaji Muhideen Babatunde, alongside others Muslim faithful to ascertain the progress of work done in the project.
Dimkpa said: “You don’t have to be a Muslim, neither do you have to belong to any particular religious sect to know that God is God. And if we are all one people as we ought to be, then helping our Muslim brothers to get this mosque which they have been praying to have for a long time is a clarion call.”(Blueprint)
