Mrs. Chinagoro Uwenke and her son
Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences
Unit (Task Force) on Thursday arrested a fake street beggar, identified
as 40 year-old Mrs Chinagoro Uwenke who uses her son to beg for alms on
the street.
Parading the suspect before newsmen, Chairman of the Task Force,
Olayinka Egbeyemi, a Superintendent of Police (SP) disclosed that there
were many fake beggars pretending and deceiving innocent members of the
public with different illnesses/diseases.
Egbeyemi revealed that the woman bandaged her son’s leg with two
rolls of white bandage and poured GV blue ink on the leg every day in
order to deceive members of the public to give alms to the innocent boy.
The woman said “I brought my son, Sunny Uwenke, 11 years old to
Lagos five years ago to beg for arms while the remaining five children
are at Ata Town in Abia State with their father”.
She further confirmed that she made much money from arms at Oshodi
than any other area of Lagos because of higher influx of people around
the area.
“She however pleaded with the government not to charge her to
court as she is ready to go back to her town and re-unite with her
family voluntarily.”
Egbeyemi said the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai
Owoseni has directed that the suspect be immediately charged to court.
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