MONROVIA, Jan. 20 -- The Director General of the National Bureau of Concessions (NBC), Attorney Edwin Dennis, has admitted to the appalling living conditions of citizens within the operational areas of most concession companies operating in Liberia.
Majority of the citizens residing at most concession areas, particularly in Grand Cape Mount, Bong and Nimba Counties, are experiencing severe hardship despite the extraction of billions of dollars' worth of natural resources, including diamond, gold, iron ore and timber, among others by foreign investors from their communities.
They remain faced with mountainous constraints ranging from lack of access to safe drinking water, adequate health care delivery, better secondary and tertiary educati...