It is the end of the road for some beggars who have been using abducted children to make N25,000 daily from begging.
The police in Anambra State on Tuesday arrested two suspects who
allegedly used abducted children for alms begging in Onitsha to make
N25,000 daily from the act.
The two suspects identified as Friday Edet and Ezekiel Ubong, both
from Akwa Ibom State had since been detained at the Onitsha prisons,
claimed to be members of a humanitarian group.
They confessed that they made N25,000 daily by parading children
with different kinds of ailment and using them for alms begging.
They were arrested by the Fegge division of the Nigeria Police
Force. Confirming the story, the Fegge Divisional Police Officer, Mr.
Rabiu Garba said the suspects were notorious for using abducted children
for alms begging in locations different from their states after
inflicting injuries and ailments on them to attract public sympathy.
Garba said six boys with hernia, as well as a three-year-old girl
with cancer of the lips, who were abducted by the suspects, had been
rescued and reunited with their families.
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