Hadiza Nosiru and Salamotu Salitu were arrested by the monitoring team of Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development in Oyingbo, Lagos, Nigeria for using babies to beg for alms. Three babies who are less than one month old were recovered from them.
They have been taken to the Rehabilitation and Training Centre at Majidun, new Ikorodu.
The ministry said, preliminary
investigation showed that the women were not the biological mothers of
the babies. The suspects said, the children were given out to them women by
their parents, who they paid daily.
One of the babies mothers, who was
paraded at the state secretariat on Alausa, Ikeja, yesterday gave her
name as Tawa Aregbesola from Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital. She said she
had an agreement with one of the suspects to take her baby for alms
begging between 5pm and 7pm daily for between N1000 and N1500.
Aregbesola, a mother of four, said she
did not know where her baby is usually taken to adding that she was
oblivious of the consequences.
Youth and Social Development Commissioner Mrs Uzamat Akinbile-Yussuf said efforts would be intensified to stop street begging.
The commissioner noted that the practice
was prevalent among female beggars especially from the north. She
promised to take legal steps to deter others who may also wasn’t to
indulge in the proactive.
The Nation.
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