ndigenes of the Federal Capital Territory have warned that Federal Government may be courting calamity if it refuses to accord them adequate compensation. The indigenes are irked that their land and what they described as the inheritance of their ancestors are taken away from them deceitfully without due recognition of their rights.

John Galadima of Galadimawa community in Abuja Municipal Area council told Daily Sun that "the government of the day is brooding calamity that will be unleashed upon it in the nearest future by pushing the FCT indigenes aside.”

He said the indigenes may soon press home their points forcefully, as it is obvious that the only language the government understands is violence, while saying that government should not take their simplicity for stupidity.

He said the Niger Delta crisis is going to be a child’s play when the Gwaris rise up to the oppression meted to them. "Our hearts are boiling that we are sacrificing our ancestral homes. It is a huge sacrifice but it is unfortunate that we don’t have a listening government.

"By the time we re-enforce, Abuja will definitely be too hot for them", he said while faulting the comments from different quarters that there are no indigenes in FCT and that it is unconstitutional to lay claim on land ownership in Nigeria as the land belongs to the Federal Government. He said every resident in Abuja has a state and a local government where they return to and they have land they could call their own where they build houses and he queried why they should be denied of such rights. He also argued that royalties are paid to some states either because oil is exploited or solid mineral is mined from their area but it is only in FCT that indigenous heritage is not recognised.

He said the village heads would get a four bedroom flat each and a palace for the chiefs. "Government is using the opportunity to improve their standard of living".
All these efforts by the FCT administration is considered a child’s play by the FCT indigenes who vowed to fight with the last drop of their blood till justice is done.

Galadima equally alerted of the impeding doom that will soon behalf the government in an effort to resettle some of them. He said they may likely turn down the offer. "How can you build a house for us without an input from us. They set up a committee but we are not part of it. We showed them the building pattern we wanted but they rejected it and went ahead with their own design. We had expected a round table discussion but they did not invite us".