A group, Motion- Movement for the Transformation of Nigeria (MOTION), which aims to improve the welfare of people in communities is set for launch on October 17th, 2025.
A member of MOTION, Abdullahi Bilal, during the prelaunch community visit to Gaube in FCT weekend, explained that pre-launch community engagements create an opportunity for communities to understand and link how government actions, inactions, and weak accountability structures and electoral processes directly impact their rights, livelihoods, and wellbeing.
He said through this process, grassroot communities will not only reflect on governance failures but also embrace their role in holding duty bearers accountable, and mobilise citizens to act, shift power and hold leaders accountable.
He further observed that the foods that people in the FCT are eating is coming from this community adnd if their farms are not are not protected, and their lives are not protected, which solely is the primary responsibility of government, it means that hunger, famine, and the cost of living crisis is inevitable and will continue to skyrocket.
” I also observed that the roads are very terrible, and then hearing from the community members themselves, I think what struck me mostly was the fact that the Primary Centre here in Gaube has been metamorphosed into mere consulting clinics.
” We also heard from the community that members have lost their lives in the process, and then the community was also affected because of the recent FCT strike.
“A woman in the community said the school here has been shut down for more than a year,” he said.
Also, a resident in Gaube community , Chia Matthew said every individual and every indigenes are entitled for social rights.
He emphasised that the community has a bad road and accessing the community is very difficult amongst other issues.
He said the markets cannot exist here because of bad roads.”For instance, we have some communities across that once it rains, there is a big river that they cannot cross”.
‘So, they need bridges so that these communities can be able to cross over. Our farmers are suffering. Because of the battle between the farmers and the herders,” he said.