*Laments ordeal of FCT natives The Federal Government has been accused of creating an enabling environment for discrimination against
*Laments ordeal of FCT natives
The Federal Government has been accused of creating an enabling environment for discrimination against the north in the South, a development that is making northerners rethink remaining in the.Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Chairman, ACF Board of Trustees (BoT), Alhaji Bashir M. Dalhatu Wazirin Dutse expressed this during his opening remarks at the forum”s meeting held at ACF Hqtrs, Kaduna on April 30, 2025.
“As you all might have noticed, the growing hostility and hate mongering against Northerners in the South, appears to be exacerbated by the current unequal and discriminatory policies of the federal government towards the North.these negative developments have prompted a growing disenchantment and disillusionment amongst Northerners against the Federation of Nigeria. Some in the North now openly question the rationale or justification for remaining in the union,” he said.
Authentic News Daily reports that while speaking on the law creating the FCT Abuja in 1976, he said that it specified a number of actions to be taken by the federal government as preconditions for the area to become the Federal Capital Territory.
“One important condition was that the indigenous population within the area demarcated as FCT would be paid adequate compensation and relocated to the neighboring states that currently include present day Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau, Kogi and Kaduna. It has been about 50 years since that law was passed but the federal government has failed to adequately implement its provisions.
“As a matter of fact and much to the regret of fair-minded Nigerians, the indigenous people of the FCT, have been forcefully driven away from their ancestral land and rendered landless and homeless through no fault of theirs,” he lamented.
According to the ACF BoT Chairman, this injustice and maltreatment of the indigenous people of the FCT Abuja calls for an urgent review.
“The time has come for Nigeria to fulfil its obligations towards the indigenous people of Abuja, including the creation of their own state within the federation of Nigeria,” he said.
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