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The Anambra State Government has launched an operation against syndicates using children to beg for alms in Awka, the capital city.

The operation was carried out by the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare Anambra State in collaboration with the Awka Capital Development Authority (ACTDA), where 16 children as well as adults were raided off the street.

Chidinma Ikeanyionwu, the media aide to the Women and social welfare Commissioner who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, August 14, 2024, said the flyover bridge at Aroma junction has for long become a den of child beggars who are used by syndicates to beg for alms.

“In line with Governor Soludo's mandate of taking school children out from the streets, the Women and social welfare Commissioner, Hon Ify Obinabo said the raid is not to make the children victims, but to use them to get at the syndicates that uses them for begging,” the statement read.

“Obinabo also reiterated the state government's stand in maintaining the low number of out-of-school-children in the state.”

On his part, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ACTDA, Mr Ossy Onuko said the operation is a welcome development of taking children off the streets and assured of his agency's support in ensuring that the needful is done for a livable and prosperous homeland.

The statement further disclosed that it was a tough battle rounding up the street kids as they immediately fled as the enforcement team made to arrest them, with some of them putting up a fight.

They were, however, rounded up and bundled into waiting vehicles and taken away.

Obinabo said the operation will continue in all parts of Awka to ensure that the town was rid of children being used by syndicates to beg for alms.

After the operation, identification of the children as well as adults began, and it was discovered that all the arrested individuals were not Indigenes of Anambra as some were either from Ebonyi state or Enugu state.

The Women Affairs boss assured that contact tracing of the parents of the kids will begin in earnest.

Residents of the area say children constitute an eyesore as they run around during school hours begging for alms, but have also constituted themselves into nuisance as they always steal from people

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After the operation, identification of the children as well as adults began, and it was discovered that all the arrested individuals were not Indigenes of Anambra as some were either from Ebonyi state or Enugu state.


Hmmmm. None of the alleged career/cartel beggars is an indigene of Anambra state. This should be investigated.

Nice job by the Anambra State Government to save the lives of those young people they use for their begging. Those little children should be in school. Suddenly, the 'lame' guy with crutches started walking

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They should visit Onitsha as well.

Go to school, if school is on break or you lack interests in academics, go and do farmwork, or learn a skill like tailoring, barbing, tiling, electrics.

Begging for alms for whatever reason is an eyesore, not accepted, and dehumanizing and can never lift you up above being poor.

Nice to know Enugu begs too.

Nigeria is totally becoming something else

Leemzyy:
Nigeria is totally becoming something else

You no longer take my calls. Good evening

Sonofgod1990:

You no longer take my calls. Good evening

My soon to be hubby dont want that

Nifpmod

Leemzyy:
My soon to be hubby dont want that

Really 😎?

[quote author=Sonofgod1990 post=131506956] Really

Wait, I thought igbos don't beg for alms. Aren't beggars supposed to be "from other regions"?

*. Igbos are not hungry
*. Igbos don't do menial jobs
*. Igbos don't do agbero/tout
*. All igbos are rich/made
*....and every other of their wishful thinkings, but the facts on ground always negate all these lies.

Since Peter Obi grew poverty in Anambra while keeping public funds in his own bank to generate profit for his shares, things have fallen apart and no longer at ease.

IPOB yoots are now dragging ALMAJIRIS spot

Roboto11, nor be ur neighbour CHIBUZOR dem drag so

this THIEVES dey DISGRACE us MILLIONAIRES with their ALMAJIRIS

So Igbos do bambiallah, afterall

ChiefOloye:
So Igbos do bambiallah, afterall

Very sad that billionaires beg.

That nonsense is part of why I stopped looking at beggars twice for years now...!

We can't tell those genuinely in need from those using begging formats to scam people.

Lol

This one nah Bam Biala +..

Made in Agulu Bam Biala..

I thought na only aboki they beg😂😂 and easterners are all millionaires

Newlymarried:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVLFGAzJewg

https://dailypost.ng/2024/08/13/anambra-govt-goes-after-syndicates-using-children-for-alms-begging-arrest-30-kids/

They are all millionaires

Hardworking Jews.

East, West, South and North...career beggers everywhere

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Billionaire Bambiyalla with money making DNA.
When they make mouth I ask myself if I was day dreaming during NYSC when I saw worst cases of poverty full ground for audio billionaire land .

Good

They must either be Yoruba Moslems or Fulanis.

Ibos don't beg

The most lucrative business currently in this country
No capital needed…everything na interest

ChiefOloye:
So Igbos do bambiallah, afterall

How dare you They are Nation builders and Billionaires