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Nigeria: Stop the Bulldozer
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Leadership (Abuja)
EDITORIAL
19 June 2008
Posted to the web 19 June 2008
Abuja
The reported death of Ismail Abdullahi as the FCDA was demolishing houses in Toge, a village on the outskirts of Abuja, would touch every heart. Whether he collapsed and died on sighting the bulldozer or was shot by policemen while opposing the FCDA, the fact remains that the 27-year-old man would have been alive today if his house had not been destroyed.
No argument can ever justify the demolitions that have taken place in the Federal Capital Territory these past few years. Many people have died as a result — directly and indirectly. The excuse of restoring the city's master plan will never make sense as long as edifices like Aso Rock and the Federal Secretariat Complex, which are not in the plan, are left standing. Indeed, as Adolf Hitler was quoted to have said, the poor can always be dealt with. Where was the FCDA when people were erecting "illegal" structures? And where does the government want the displaced people to go? Abuja is made for man, not man for the city. Abdullahi should be the last Nigerian to die as a result of FCDA's inefficiency and senseless demolitions of people's homes.
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