Put Nigerian Navy in order, Iddo elder urges FCT Minister

By Usman Shuaibu

An indigene of Iddo Community in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Dahiru Haruna, who is also the Chief of the traditional medicine practitioners in the area, has called on the FCT Minister, Barr. Nyesom Wike to, as a matter of urgency to stop the Nigerian Navy from encroaching into their land in the area.
Dahiru Haruna, who made this call in an interview with Peoples Daily Correspondent on Saturday in Iddo, also appealed to the Minister to deem it necessary to intervene into the matter for the sake of peace in the community.
According to Haruna, “Iddo Community was in existence before the Nigeria got her Independence, adding that Iddo was in existence before the Capital of Nigeria was relocated from Lagos to Abuja”.
He then expressed with dismay the manner at which the Nigerian Navy, as well as the Nigerian Army have been encroaching into the People’s land anyhow in the territory without meeting with the traditional rulers.
“Nigerian Navy and Nigerian Army should give the compensation to the indigenes or farmers in the FCT before encroaching into their farm land”, he said.
He, therefore, pleaded with the residents of Iddo Community to shun any act capable of generating tension in the community, and charged the government of the day to prevent the country’s security agencies from claiming the people’s farm land.