Abuja community evicted to build Nigeria's capital: 'We want a voice in our land'

People evicted to build Nigeria's capital accuse the government of failing to fulfill its promises to them.

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"We just saw big trucks and construction vehicles destroying our farms," she recalls.

This was in the late 1980s. She, like others who lived on the land on which the city was built, say they are still waiting for the compensation they were promised at the time.

The planning for the new capital right in the centre of the country began a decade earlier.

On 4 February 1976, the military government led by Murtala Muhammed created an area called the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) - 7,315 sq km (2,824 sq miles) of land carved from Niger, Plateau and Kaduna states.