By Bode Olagoke
The Original Inhabitants of FCT, led by its national coordinator, Greater Gbagyi Development Initiative, (GGDI), Prince Gimba Gbaiza, has claimed responsibility for protest that led to the blocking of ever busy Kubwa, Zuba express way over the demolition of their houses at Lungu community in Gwarinpa area of Abuja.
The group leader said this at the weekend in Abuja, during a protest to air their grievances against their traditional leaders and political office holders described the Senator representing them at the National Asembly Sen. Philip Aduda and the House of representative member Hon. Isa Igaddobi, as failure and a disappointment to the FCT natives.
According to him, the protest to was borne out to the fact that “most of them are sold out to the government due to their selfish act to enrich themselves”, adding that the FCT indigenes will be voted out of office in 2015.
“Since the vast land now known as FCT was taken over by the federal government in 1976, the indigenous people of FCT have literarily been under perennial terrorization by government officials and private land grabbers using military and police personnel to dispossess them of farmlands and homesteads with neither compensation nor resettlement.
“We have sacrificed enough for this nation and the minister is not seeing it that way but he will always pay us with sending development control to bring down our homes, enough is enough, the government has pushed us to the wall, that we are peace loving people does not mean that we does know our right”, he said.
Responding in his palace, the Sapeyi of Garki, Dr, Usman Ngakupi assured them that their massage will be communicated to the minister of the FCT, adding peaceful dialogue is key to any success story in the world.
He said, no community in the world has ever achieved success with violence, he therefore advised them to maintain the spirit of calmness and patient and also forward their grievances in writing to minister of FCT and other related authorities for mutual understand and rapid action
