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Benefitting Communities Can Choose Their Projects –NDDC Boss

May 23, 2024 Admin

Chief Samuel Ogbuku, Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) said that the commission cannot choose projects for benefiting communities. Ogbuku stated this at the 13th Extraordinary General Assembly of the Forum of Monarchs in the South South on Tuesday in Asaba. The theme of the meeting is ” Strengthening Collaboration for Development in the South South Region: the Role of the Traditional Institution. He said that communities have the right to dictate to the commission what they wanted and not the commission to dictate to them. Ogbuku said that…

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