{"id":169137,"date":"2025-07-11T20:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/beggars-apprehended-in-abuja-crackdown-on-scavengers"},"modified":"2025-07-11T21:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:33:32","slug":"beggars-apprehended-in-abuja-crackdown-on-scavengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/beggars-apprehended-in-abuja-crackdown-on-scavengers","title":{"rendered":"Beggars Apprehended in Abuja Crackdown on Scavengers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>With the commencement of Operation Sweep Abuja, no fewer than 210 miscreants, street beggars, traders, scavengers and other criminal elements, have been apprehended by the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA.<\/p>\n

The 210 beggars comprising of 80 men, 58 women and 72 children, have been camped at a rehabilitation centre in Bwari.<\/p>\n

The scavengers, \u2018one chance\u2019 syndicate and other criminals who were also apprehended have been handed over to the police.<\/p>\n

This was disclosed in Abuja by the Acting Director of Social Welfare, Social Department Secretariat of FCTA, Mrs Gloria Onwuka, on Thursday.<\/p>\n

She disclosed that some unidentified individuals imported the children from Kano, Katsina, and other states into Abuja to beg and handover the proceeds to them.<\/p>\n

Onwuka, however, disclosed that after being profiled, the children would be deported by to where the came from.<\/p>\n

\u201cBegging is now run like a business. People will go and hire people\u2019s children from other states, put them in vehicles very early in the morning, come to Abuja and start begging.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe families they are hiring these children from don\u2019t even know that this is what they are using their children to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have caught so many of them like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, some of the beggars will even tie a bandage on their legs claiming injuries but it\u2019s all lies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a woman we caught who claimed she has cancer of the breast, but when we loosened the bandage, there was no single wound on her breast,\u201d Onwuka said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. With the commencement of Operation Sweep Abuja, no fewer than 210 miscreants, street beggars, traders, scavengers and other criminal elements, have been apprehended by the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA. The 210 beggars comprising of 80 men, 58 women and 72 children, have been camped at a rehabilitation centre in Bwari. 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