The Chairman of Lagos State Taskforce, SP Olayinka Egbeyemi
has revealed that a lot of beggars on streets of Lagos are people, who pretend
to be sick to deceive innocent people and get money from them. He said this while
parading a 40-year-old female suspect Chinagoro Uwenke and her 11-year-old son
Sunny, at the Oshodi area of the state.
He said the woman had faked that her son had an injury. The
taskforce chairman disclosed that there were many fake beggars pretending and
deceiving innocent members of the public with different illnesses and diseases.
“The rate at which these fake beggars operate in the state
calls for concern. That is why the Agency is collaborating with relevant
government Ministries, Agencies and Departments to get rid of these beggars on
the streets and roads of Lagos. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr
Fatai Owoseni has directed that the suspect be immediately charged to court,”
he said.
The suspect who confessed to the crime said that she
bandaged her son’s leg with two rolls of white bandages and poured Gentian
Violet (GV) on the leg every day to deceive members of the public to give alms
to the boy.
Uwenke explained that she abruptly stopped her son’s
education at a junior secondary level for street begging when she realised that
she can make between N3,500 and N5,000 daily.
The suspect who stays at Oyingbo, pleaded with the
government not to charge her to court, saying she was ready to go back to her
town and re-unite with her family voluntarily.
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