The Accord senatorial candidate in the FCT in 2027 election, Comrade Ezikel Musa Dalhatu said he would initiative a bill with the support of his colleagues at the Senate to ensure the law will protect both the indigenous and residents of the territory.
Dalhatu, who was speaking during the party’s affirmation stakeholders meeting in Abuja, said there has never been any concrete law protecting the indigenous people and residents of the FCT over 50 years.
He said it is frustrating to see that the natives’ houses are being demolished while their ancestral lands are taken away, thereby displacing them without any proper alternative or compensation by the government.
“For the past 50 years, there has been no concrete law protecting the indigenous people and other residents of FCT. And let me tell you for free, if you protect the indigenous communities, you are also protecting the residents because they live together with the natives,” he said.
He said he will initiate youth and women empowerment across the six area councils of the FCT, which he said would be targeted mostly at the vulnerable residents, adding that skills acquisition would also be prioritised to enhance self-reliance.
According to him, the primary education sector across the FCT would also be revamped in order to put an end to where pupils sit on the bare floor to learn inside dilapidated classrooms.
He said his desire to contest for the FCT senate seat is not to come and fight anybody but to collaborate with relevant stakeholders in order to provide dividends of democracy to the people of the territory.
