Natives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have condemned the description of Abuja as a ‘No Man’s Land’, insisting that the indigenes of Abuja have not bequeathed the ownership of their ancestral land to anyone.

The natives also said that the fact that the Federal Capital Territory was moved from Lagos to Abuja has not in any way gave their ancestral rights of the territory away, urging people describing the territory as a ‘no man’s land’ to have a rethink.



They regretted that the relocation of FCT to Abuja has led to the loss of their lands, political entitlements, and many other legitimate rights, insisting that it was time Abuja was accorded a state status so that natives can regain some political entitlements lost due to the current status of FCT

The executive director of Abuja Original Inhabitants Youths Empowerment Organization (AOIYEO), Commandant Isaac David, while speaking during the natives’ first quarter townhall meeting in Kuje Area Council, said in the second quarter of the year, an FCT stakeholders Assembly will be launched.

David lamented that the massive land belonging to the natives has been confiscated by federal authorities and sold to buyers who now built malls and plazas on it, while the natives were pushed inside the hinterland.

“We have sat down at our level and we came up with a very good strategic platform that will give the window and the room to our stakeholders in the FCT to speak on why the government has the power to choose either to work with the indigenous people of FCT or not.

“FCT Stakeholders Assembly will nominate a credible stakeholder that you feel is powerful and credible and doable to assume that office as a chairman of FCT Stakeholders Assembly where the Minister of FCT may speak or any decision taken by the administration, the government will think twice knowing there are people, there are speakers in the land.

“There are owners of the land and any decisions that will be taken by the government, this forum will serve as the breach between the natives and the government and there’s no way a stranger will have something that has to do with FCT without considering the voice of the FCT Stakeholders Assembly,” he said.

Also, the senior special assistant on Special Duties to the Minister of FCT, Hajiya Farida Suleiman, lamented the alleged unfair treatment of the FCT natives.

“We have been grossly marginalised, abused, and our human rights have been tampered with. We do not have absolute representation for our people in the National Assembly, we do not even have a State Assembly because we are not a State. This breaks my heart daily.

“It is a struggle I have been in for the last 10 years of my life. I tell you today, we are facing extinction as we are today. Some people do not even know that we have natives in the city, they believe in the ‘No man’s land’ which hurts badly

"So today we are coming together to tell Nigerians that there are real owners of FCT and these real owners are coming out to say ‘enough is enough’. We are ready to take the leadership of our ancestral land, what is due to every Nigerian should be outrightly given to us as a people.

 

“This is a fundamental human rights issue, nothing more. It is not political, it is not traditional, it’s a fundamental human right as citizens of this country, as Nigerians and as human beings living in the globe,” she stated.

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Every part of this world have land owners
You cannot go to another man’s land simply because you are many then you declare the place a no man’s land

NOETHNICITY:
Every part of this world have land owners
You cannot go to another man’s land simply because you are many then you declare the place a no man’s land

Who declared Abuja a no man's land and on what occasion?

obyrich:
Who declared Abuja a no man's land and on what occasion?

.
Who first come to your mind apart from the entitlement and attachment by force people

Good one

Ola9ja23:
🤣🤣😂 The Thank you Daddy children done cast for Abuja

Na them they claim ownership of everything that belong to other ethnicity .


Very soon. Yeebophobia will start all over Nigeria and that will put an end to all this nonsense No man's land mentality
.

Very funny.Only in your dreams.

If there is anything that will happen it is Yorubaphobia.It was only in the SW that non-yorubas were attacked and prevented from voting

ObiORBiafra:
Developers don reach that side

For a while now

We need to be very careful in this delicate period as a Nation.FCT indigenes should go
about their agitation without heating up d
polity.

raskymonojendor:

For a while now

Ha... Mo gbe, 70% investment in Abuja? Mo gbe o

Always funny how people from the SE think they are richer than Abokis...
How can you own 70% in the middle of over 300,000+ stake and share holders...

I just dey laugh as Igbos dey play

ObiORBiafra:

Ha... Mo gbe, 70% investment in Abuja? Mo gbe o

Always funny how people from the SE think they are richer than Abokis...
How can you own 70% in the middle of over 300,000+ stake and share holders...

I just dey laugh as Igbos dey play

I have looked and yet to see where exactly Igbo or igbos was mentioned in the report.Your obsession with igbos will kill you one day

obyrich:
Who declared Abuja a no man's land and on what occasion?

Well, the owners of Abuja have decided to take the bull be the horn and the initiative of preemptive measures before some people make such a proclamation like they did with Lagos

NOETHNICITY:
Every part of this world have land owners
You cannot go to another man’s land simply because you are many then you declare the place a no man’s land

Again you have started hallucinating!!! I am yet to know where and when any part of Nigeria was declared a no man's land by anybody.

FYI Abuja is not dominated by people of the SS/SE.Its obvious you people do not step out of your region.

Jorussia:
We need to be very careful in this delicate period as a Nation.FCT indigenes should go
about their agitation without heating up d
polity.

Is like you are an Ibadan man (pun intended)
Address the landgrabbers before you calm the landowner.
The day you go get a nice piece of land and someone comes to lay claim of ownership on that land that's when you will know what "land" means, now multiply this land by ancestral heritage.
Like who doesn't know the value of something will not try to steal it...

NOETHNICITY:
Well, the owners of Abuja have decided to take the bull be the horn and the initiative of preemptive measures before some people make such a proclamation like they did with Lagos

But you did not answer his kweshion.

Again no section or ethnic group is mentioned in the report.Last time I checked it is even a Yoruba woman who is going to represent them at the next senate

kcnwaigbo:

I have looked and yet to see where exactly Igbo or igbos was mentioned in the report.Your obsession with igbos will kill you one day

Lol.. no other person in the whole world as ever lay claims to Abuja except Igbos that think they own 70% of the land

ObiORBiafra:

Lol.. no other person in the whole world as ever lay claims to Abuja except Igbos that think they own 70% of the land

Igbos think? What brand of goof exactly are you smoking? If these people are referring to anyone,it is likely the Yoruba woman who won the last senatorial elections there .

There is no where exactly igbos are mentioned in the report neither do Igbos dominate Abuja.It is not really a business zone.

The Obedient movement won massively in Abuja because they had a very educated population not necessarily because igbos are in the majority

kcnwaigbo:


Igbos think? What brand of goof exactly are you smoking? If these people are referring to anyone,it is likely the Yoruba woman who won the last senatorial elections there .

There is no where exactly igbos are mentioned in the report neither do Igbos dominate Abuja.It is not really a business zone.

The Obedient movement won massively in Abuja because they had a very educated population not necessarily because igbos are in the majority

Alawada, jus dey play

kcnwaigbo:

Very funny.Only in your dreams.

If there is anything that will happen it is Yorubaphobia.It was only in the SW that non-yorubas were attacked and prevented from voting

meanwhile in SE, even igbos were attacked and prevented.

Those people will eventually carry their Sara pass moshalashi

kcnwaigbo:

Very funny.Only in your dreams.

If there is anything that will happen it is Yorubaphobia.It was only in the SW that non-yorubas were attacked and prevented from voting

Thats the problem many people have with igbos...your inability to accept the truth and propensity to deny whats obvious.
Lots of non igbos were prevented from voting in the east but igbos want us to belief it jappened only in Lagos.
Thank God everyone can now see through the deceit called biafra agitation as a result of perceived igbo marginalization .
By May 29....we will wait for you to shamelessly begin another round of agitation

Yoruba woman is a senator-elect FCT. We are in era of neo-feudalism. Big men are not satisfied with capitalism. Presently about 10% controls 90% of wealth in the world. In the future, about 10% would control 90% of world landmass.

Go try na,make Fulani carry your body do suya. You think the Northerners get time to play?

NOETHNICITY:
Well, the owners of Abuja have decided to take the bull be the horn and the initiative of preemptive measures before some people make such a proclamation like they did with Lagos

Which people made the proclamation in Lagos? I have done research and couldn't find anyone who made the claim as being pushed by some APC members, all I see is people saying that Lagos is not no man's land

Owontime:
Go try na,make Fulani carry your body do suya. You think the Northerners get time to play?

Abuja is not owned by fulanis Lol make una de try travel small comot from your SW

Everybody migrated to where they call their land. Some met people there and conquer them. Is like saying the native Americans can claim their lands from the European immigrants who discover a continent they called the new world.

Abuja belongs to Nigeria, same as Lagos.
You'll have to go through war or referendum to separate from Nigeria and get your sovereignty back

NOETHNICITY:
Every part of this world have land owners
You cannot go to another man’s land simply because you are many then you declare the place a no man’s land

Difrent:

Thats the problem many people have with igbos...your inability to accept the truth and propensity to deny whats obvious.
Lots of non igbos were prevented from voting in the east but igbos want us to belief it jappened only in Lagos.
Thank God everyone can now see through the deceit called biafra agitation as a result of perceived igbo marginalization .
By May 29....we will wait for you to shamelessly begin another round of agitation

Lots of igbos were prevented from voting in the east? Where exactly did it happen?. What State, town,Lg or polling units?

Yorubas attacked ijaws, igbos,Efiks,Ibibios,Urhobos,Isokos,great people from Rivers and even people of the middle belts

These attacks were well captured on several videos.

We will all remember your treachery when the time comes.

Even your incapacitated Tinubu will never smell aso rock

helinues:
Those people will eventually carry their Sara pass moshalashi

Exactly!! How can a Yoruba woman be representing Abuja in the Senate? Abuja is not a no man's land

ObiORBiafra:

Alawada, jus dey play

Oga your spinning is not working.Try harder