{"id":67440,"date":"2025-06-06T04:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T04:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67440"},"modified":"2025-06-06T04:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T04:46:41","slug":"dont-displace-us-from-our-roots-kpaduma-community-tells-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/06\/dont-displace-us-from-our-roots-kpaduma-community-tells-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Displace Us from Our Roots, Kpaduma Community Tells Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Natives of Kpaduma, a community near the Asokoro District of Abuja, have appealed to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to resettle residents affected by the ongoing road project within an already identified area in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Baba Yerima, Secretary and Madaki of Kpaduma, made the appeal during a meeting with community leaders and government officials on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He commended the FCT Minister for engaging with community leaders and demonstrating willingness to dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Yerima stressed that the community&#8217;s main request is for displaced residents to be relocated within Kpaduma, rather than being moved to unfamiliar areas.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that any arrangement outside this demand would force natives to abandon their ancestral homes, including the burial grounds of their forefathers, which they consider sacred.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking, the youth leader of the community expressed support for the road project but urged the government to ensure that development does not come at the cost of the community\u2019s heritage and identity.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that while the people welcome development, relocation should take place within the community itself.<\/p>\n<p>He said an area suitable for resettlement has already been identified and called on the minister to officially designate it for that purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Natives of Kpaduma, a community near the Asokoro District of Abuja, have appealed to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to resettle residents affected by the ongoing road project within an already identified area in the community. Baba Yerima, Secretary and Madaki of Kpaduma, made the appeal during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-67440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67442,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67440\/revisions\/67442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}