By Sunday Gbegbe, Abuja.
Professor Andrew Zaman
The Director, Institution of Governance and Development, Nassarawa State University, Professor Andrew Zamani, has called on the Nigerian Government to give proper consideration to ancestral owners of Land in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Professor Zamani made the call during a summit organized by the Abuja indigenous Liberation Movement with the theme Indigenous People of FCT, Issues of Land Ownership and the way forward, in Abuja.
He said that the Federal government should take a position on constitutional legitimacy of land administration in the federal capital territory.
Professor Zamani also pleaded with the Federal government to honour the Supreme Court and ECOWAS court judgments on the status of the FCT as an autonomous governance entity.
In his remark, the coordinator of the group, Mr. Nathaniel Gaza, said that the summit was organized for the indigenous people in the FCT to discuss ways of addressing some challenges facing the natives and draw the attention of the Federal government to the need for FCT to be treated as a state.
On his part, the Etsu of Pigba in Abuja Municipal Area Council, Chief James Zakwoyi, stressed the need for the indigenes to be given their right of land ownership and the creation of more Tertiary institutions to enable their youths have easy access to quality education in FCT.
