Ibe Pascal Arogorn
The Enugu State Government has pulled
down the Enugu branch of The Master
Builder Global Church.
Crimefacts gathered that the church
located at No. 19, Park Avenue, GRA,
was taken apart by the men of the
Enugu Capital Territory Development
Authority on Thursday.
Responding to this shocking incident on
Saturday, the Administrative Pastor of
the church, Mr. Emmanuel Bamidele,
described the demolition as ungodly and
an attack on the body of Christ.
Mr. Bamidele said that it was horrifying
to see a Governor is a Christian by faith
tear apart God’s house.
“The owner of the property is overseas.
The property was leased to the church
for a certain number of years because
we did not intend to stay permanently on
the property. So, when we started, we
applied to the state capital territory
development authority to put glass tenet
but approval was denied.
“So, we decided to put and ordinary
tenet. However, before the outbreak of
the coronavirus pandemic in the country,
the ECTDA came and sealed the
premises. We called the governor who
after listening to us said that it would be
resolved amicably. We have had a
meeting with the Chairman of the
ECTDA, Dr Josef Onoh, and we are still discussing.
“Regrettably, on Wednesday at about
10am, I was in the church with our
members, suddenly I heard a bang on
the gate. I decided to look through the
window and saw a bulldozer pulling
down the perimeter fence of the
property. I ran out in company with my
colleagues and went to meet the person in charge .
“They didn’t talk to us and the bulldozer
entered the premises and started
demolishing the church tenet and all the
equipment in it worth over N70m.”
He further disclosed that all his pleas to
the officials of the ECTDA to permit
them to remove their equipment, which,
according to him, were only imported
few days earlier, fell on deaf ears.
He appealed to Governor Ifeanyi
Ugwuanyi, to see to it that that the
destroyed church property was
compensated with some restitution.
