Palpable fear has enveloped an Abuja community as Navy planned to recover its land by demolishing illegal structures.
The fear was created by a sign post erected by the Nigerian Navy with inscription “This land belongs to the Nigerian Navy, Park and leave. All property here will be demolished soon. Notice served on 12-02-2024” has got the natives and residents of Iddo-Sarki community along Airport Road, Abuja.
The Village Head of Iddo-Sarki, Bello Adamu Sarki, who conducted the Commissioner for Public Complaints Commission (PCC) representing the FCT, Ezekiel Musa Dalhatu, round the places where the demolition signposts were mounted, said they had never been notified that they were coming to erect the signposts.
Sarki said the action was a deliberate act to move his people from their ancestral homes.
He, therefore, appealed to the PCC commissioner to immediately step into the matter to ensure justice was done for the natives of the community.
The PCC Commissioner, Dalhatu, said it was despicable and mind-blowing for the Navy to mount signposts with such an inscription asking the natives to vacate their ancestral homes that had been existing for decades.
He noted that, “There are laid down procedures through which government takes over ancestral lands of the natives, which is done through resettlement and compensation, but for the Nigerian Navy to just come and mount signposts asking natives to start moving out of their ancestral homes without delay is not proper.”
He said the commission would formally notify the FCT Minister, Nyemso Wike, of the Navy’s plans.
Dalhatu told the residents of Iddo-Sarki to be calm and go about their activities peacefully without taking the law into their hands.