By Patrick Idowu
Indigenous people of Abuja, under the FCT Stakeholders Assembly (FSA), have lamented years of neglect and marginalisation in the nation’s capital, stating they have been short-changed as Abuja developed.
Speaking during a paper presentation at the Senate’s zonal public hearing on constitutional amendments in Jos, Plateau State, FSA spokesperson Ezekiel Musa Dalhatu said over 80 percent of Abuja’s lands remain uncompensated, and many natives are yet to be resettled.
Dalhatu noted that despite legal provisions for compensation and resettlement, as recommended by the 1975 Justice Akinola Aguda panel that proposed Abuja as the new capital, those promises remain unfulfilled.
He called on lawmakers to address the longstanding injustice faced by Abuja’s original inhabitants, who, he said, have been left without basic rights or privileges in their own land.
