By Daniel Tyokua
Youths at Idu community in Abuja Municipal Area council (AMAC) have met Chief Muhammad Bawa, the village head of the area, requesting for more teachers in the primary school.
The chairman United Association of Youths (UAY), Idu, the host community of Idu Industrial Area in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), at the weekend visited the traditional ruler and tabled their demand.
Despite commending the government for building of school in the school, Salihu said that he has noted with concern that without adequate school teachers in a school, such as the one in Idu, the pupils will be denied the desired education.
He said that inadequate education makes the future of the children as future of tomorrow uncertain.
The youth leader appealed to the monarch to wade into the issue and resolve the challenge.
In his remarks, the village head commended them for their legitimate request.
He told them that making a lot of requests on education and other areas from the government will certainly be attended to, which he described as a listening one.
Bawa, however told them that he has consistently been visiting and writing to the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to return some of their lands to them as farmers.
He said that all their lands have been located out to developers, individuals, government institutions, among others.
This, he said has over the time denied them age-long occupation, being farming.
The royal father also regretted that due to the taking over of their lands, the youths, according to him don’t have a place to build their own houses in the future.
The monarch however informed that he was able to secure a school from a donor organisation, where the children of indigenes and residents would be given education freely, but regretted that there is no land to build the school.
Bawa said that he has taken the problems the indigenes have been passing through about land issues to the government, but yet no positive results from the authority.
He said that the only land that is left in the community located in their age long forest has been allocated to a developer, who has started putting up buildings on the forest land.
