{"id":68863,"date":"2025-06-24T05:45:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68863"},"modified":"2025-06-24T05:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:45:38","slug":"abuja-indigenes-accuse-fcda-of-land-grabbing-urge-wikes-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/24\/abuja-indigenes-accuse-fcda-of-land-grabbing-urge-wikes-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Indigenes Accuse FCDA of Land Grabbing, Urge Wike\u2019s Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indigenes of the Nyanya community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have raised alarm over alleged moves by some officials of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), to seize their ancestral land.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, the community chairman, Chief Enoch Jiyaba, accused certain FCDA officials of undermining the inclusive policies of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, by orchestrating plans to dispossess them of their remaining land.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Jiyaba praised Wike for his efforts to integrate Abuja natives into governance, particularly through political appointments, but expressed concern that some officials were acting contrary to the minister\u2019s vision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur forebears farmed this land for over a century. We were relocated from areas like Abacha Barracks, NAF Valley, and Kugbo due to urban development. The little land left for us to build homes must not be taken,\u201d Jiyaba said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the Nyanya community, largely made up of displaced farmers, had consistently endured forced evictions in the name of development and appealed for the preservation of what remains of their land.<\/p>\n<p>The community reaffirmed its commitment to peace and called on the federal government, civil society organisations, and concerned Nigerians to intervene and stop further encroachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Indigenes of the Nyanya community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have raised alarm over alleged moves by some officials of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), to seize their ancestral land. In a statement on Monday, the community chairman, Chief Enoch Jiyaba, accused certain FCDA officials of undermining the inclusive policies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":68864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-68863","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\/68863","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=68863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68865,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68863\/revisions\/68865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}