{"id":71350,"date":"2025-07-24T05:52:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71350"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:52:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:52:58","slug":"petition-national-assembly-obika-urges-demolition-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/24\/petition-national-assembly-obika-urges-demolition-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition National Assembly, Obika Urges Demolition Victims\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chinedu Obika, member representing AMAC and Bwari Federal Constituency, has urged victims of the recent demolition in Karsana community to submit a formal petition through him to the National Assembly for deliberation.<\/p>\n<p>During a visit to the affected area, Obika condemned the demolition reportedly carried out by a developer and decried the use of police force against residents, which left two natives with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>He described the action as a gross violation of human rights and called on community leaders to remain calm while assuring them of his commitment to justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will fight for justice using every legal tool at our disposal. Your dignity and justice remain non-negotiable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Obika reaffirmed his support for the original inhabitants of the FCT and pledged to advocate for their rights at the national level.<\/p>\n<p>He also donated an undisclosed sum to cover the medical expenses of the two injured residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Chinedu Obika, member representing AMAC and Bwari Federal Constituency, has urged victims of the recent demolition in Karsana community to submit a formal petition through him to the National Assembly for deliberation. During a visit to the affected area, Obika condemned the demolition reportedly carried out by a developer and decried the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":71351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-71350","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\/71350","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=71350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71352,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71350\/revisions\/71352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}