Abuja natives want FCT minister to implement NASS report. Category: City news Published on Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:00 The original inhabitants of Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have called on the FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, to urgently implement the report of the National Assembly (NASS) that condemned the misappropriation of land allocated for their resettlement by officials of the FCT Development Authority. Spokesman for the Abuja original inhabitants, Musa Dikko, said this over the weekend at a town hall meeting held at the palace of the Chief of Kubwa at Kubwa village. The original inhabitants had lived in Maitama Sabotage, Maitama Tsoho, Kukwaba, Katampe and Nyikuru communities for over 200 years before the creation of the FCT. They said that they were called upon within a short period to give up possession of their ancestral land which they did for the sake of national progress but which sacrifice has gone unrewarded. “They were forced to petition the NASS based on their plight and the NASS while responding to their petition condemned the action of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) and Bwari Area Council in reallocating landscapes earlier reserved for the indigenes,” he said. The indigenes said that if the NASS report was not implemented, they will return to their ancestral land, adding that the current security challenges facing the nation will be child’s play. The NASS report, a copy of which was made available to our reporter, condemned the long delay in issuing Certificate of Occupancy over the resettlement houses already allocated and urged FCDA to take urgent steps to process and issue certificate of occupancy to the indigenes. NASS also urged the FCDA to consider issuing part of the developed areas to the original inhabitants as part of their compensation to enable them benefit from the high value of lands that originally belonged to them as is the practice in most other parts of the country. The NASS, in the report, further directed the FCDA to urgently embark on urban renewal programmes in the settlement areas to provide basic infrastructure, such as roads, schools among others for the resettled people.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 06:23:52 +0000
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