Managing Director of DESOPADEC, Bashorun Ogieh,performing the foundation laying on the commission’s office complex on Saturday 11th July.
Ovedhe Hezekiah – Warri
To mark the first year anniversary of the current board of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Managing Director of the agency, Bashorun Ogieh, had laid foundation for a -four storey office complex.
The Ogieh led DESOPADEC was inaugurated in 2019 by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.
Performing the foundation laying ceremony on Saturday 11th July, at the Commission’s head office along Warri Sapele road, Warri, Ogieh expressed delight on the commencement of the project aimed to address the problem of office accommodation.
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He stated that the project concept, from architectural design to structural engineering and ancillary requirements, was done by the in-house technical team, adding that, the feat has changed the hitherto jaundiced perception of the professional staff for which he is so proud.
The Commission helmsman further explained that one of the issues that had remained compelling for the Board was the challenge of office space to accommodate a sizeable number of staff, preferably under one corporate vicinity.
He noted that, this is particularly so, as staff at the swamp road office have nicknamed that section “Sambisa Forest,” purportedly implying that they were always forgotten by management.
“This and other considerations became the tonic that propelled the Board to put on their creative thinking cap and seek executive approval to build a befitting office complex within the head office at Warri-Sapele Road to address, once and for all, the persistent office needs confronting the Commission and I assure you of a quality finishing hopefully within the 3rd quarter of 2021”, Ogieh added.
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The Commission MD was accompanied by the Executive Director, Finance & Administration, Mr John Obukowho Nani, the Executive Director, Planning, Research & Statistics, Mr Shedrack Agediga and Heads of Departments and Units as well as staffs of the commission to the ground breaking ceremony.
Ogieh earlier at a meeting with staff of the commission disclosed that start off fund for the project was raised from absentee staff.
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He pointed out that in its bid to bring sanity into the system by ensuring that some staff do not perpetually take the Commission for granted through job truancy, double job, non commitment and so forth, the previous Board of which he was a principal member embraced the biometric data capture for all staff to monitor their dedication to duty and be certain that staff did earned their salaries.
The fallout of that exercise, he noted had been fraught with resistance, petitions, bags of complaints, threats, protests, and the accrued funds harvested from these infractions by staff over time have been lodged in a dedicated account and is used for the project.
