Over 1,000 beggars on Tuesday blocked the entrance of the Lagos State House of Assembly and the Governor’s Office to protest undue harassment and arrest by officials of the state government.

The beggars, who came in over 10 buses and seven tricycles barricaded the entrance to the Assembly and demanded that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu addressed them, saying that they would sleep on the road if the governor did not come out.

Despite plea by government officials telling them that the governor was not around, they refused to bend and vowed to remain there until they were seen by the governor.

The protesters were armed with placards, some of which read: “Enough is enough, stop the persecution of people with disabilities,” “Save the waterfront, enforced conviction, we demand justice,”If you don’t want to see us begging on the streets, give us skills and empowerment,” “Seeing beggars all over our streets and roads is the failure of the system” and “We are tired of running without legs or eyes, give us skills and empowerment.”

The beggars were chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ intermittently and dared the police to harass them.



A cross section of the protesters

Spokesperson of the beggars and Coordinator, Physically Challenged Empowerment Initiatives, PCEI, Mohammed Zanna, said in 2017, they protested in Alausa and refused to leave, but that many of them were arrested and taken to Majidun, which he described as a prison where they were ill-treated and manhandled by government officials.

He said without making provision, government would make laws to arrest the beggars and dumped them at Majidun, as some of them had died in the hospital and in detention.

According to him, some of the beggars had been able to purchase tricycles to do their businesses, but that now that the government had banned them, their situation had been made difficult, saying that people were now trekking from bus stops to their destinations and that some of the physically challenged among them did not have means of transportation


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Beggar association of nigeria....

Children that should be in school are begging on the streets

Someone has worked really hard to assemble them here.

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I thought Lagos is no man's land. Why are they victimizing them? They are capable of bringing Sanwo-Olu's government down if provoked

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Lol, why southerners give these people money beats me. One yeye idiot said the other time that begging was their culture.

Dear Southerners stop giving people who feel they are entitled to your money,let them starve on the streets if they want to or let them follow tomatos lorry back to their various states to continue their begging culture there.


The day I saw a Hausa woman beggar eating food I cannot afford with two meat and pure water is the day I stopped giving these beggars money,to think all her kids were there too hustling and holding people's clothes to beg for money made it even more disgusting.

they found the new home

Damnnnnn niggarrr

Isoright

Look at these fools...
Go back to the headquarters of begging where it's a full time job
Leave the city of God

30k fine or 3month imprisonment
Wetin Musa no go see for gate
Na this wan dem dey call "The return of Almajiri"


Every News coming from Lagos this days sef is not appreciating the Government Images at all.

Islam!


The beggars were chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ intermittently and dared the police to harass them.


Why can't you take your begging to your home state?

All this kids that should be in school are already being groom for this? I pity Nigeria

Fashola would had just packed them and deport them immediately.. most of this beggars are fvcking rich


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Looks more like Hausas-Fulani than Yorubas.

At least pls return napep

Some of our Nairaland beggers here should join them.

Don't tell me they wrote those things, I hope someone is not using them to make fame and money.

Samyj247:
North

And South

And many of them voted for BaBu in

Nigeria Government should pay more attention to the less privileged and the vulnerable

Wetin gonorrhea nor go see inside toto

Go back to Kano. Go and meet Baba Buhari and stop disturbing us here.

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Just see kids in this 21st century

I spit on this thread...

Truly there was a country

Mtcheww
Make una do find work

kk