Eight beggars have been sentenced to one month imprisonment by the Special Offences court in Alausa, Ikeja, for begging on the streets of Lagos state.
The beggars were arrested by officials of the Office of Youth and Social Development, Lagos State at different spots in the Lagos metropolis and charged to court.
The beggars were arraigned on a three-count charge of conducting themselves in a disorderly manner without visible means of livelihood and therefore deemed to have committed an offence punishable under the criminal law of Lagos State.
They were also charged with conducting themselves in manner likely to cause breach of peace and thus committed an offence punishable under the same criminal law of Lagos State 2011.
The last count declared that the beggars received, demanded for dues and collected unauthorized levy from persons and committed an offence punishable under section two of the Illegal Collection of Dues in Public Place (prohibition) Law of Lagos State 2003.
The beggars pleaded guilty to the charges, and were sentenced by the presiding magistrate to one month imprisonment or a fine of N5,000 each.
The convicted beggars are: Aliyu Ikure, 50; Muhammed Bello, 60; Abubakar Adamu, 60; Yusuf Ibrahim, 55; Isiaka Husseni, 55; Abubakar Usman, 65; Abubakar Garuba, 50 and Adamu Taofida, 65; all from the northern part of the country.
Governor Babatunde Fashola had warned that his administration would declare total war on beggars, saying that they either leave the state or be prepared to engage in something that would contribute meaningfully to the state’s revenue earnings.
Please i surgest government should provide job for the citizens in order to control sreet,roadside begging!
tyrant governor with tyrant state laws against aged men old enough to b his father takwa llah
lekside is dat hw u wud talk to ur father u ungrateful boko haram.u are rather d tyrant frm a tyrant family.fool like u.
I love your stories nd i want to be part of it.
Dat is gud
Stupid no offense was committed yet they were jail even though dey do
D ibos ar knwn for comerce nd industry while d north ar parasitic begars all over d nation
Ndi hausa should stop being lazy and work. Dey hv enough land 2 farm bt dey prefare 2 beg.
I thought gov of lagos ws a wise person but nw i can c hw senseless he is to d core.he said he doesnt want beggars on d,then provide fr dem smthg to do.moreover dis men ar evn aging,nd he us jailin dem,remember who our God is.take note!mtcheeew
Haba Governor Fashola you no try at all. How can you jail men of this age? What if one of them was ur father would you have jailed him? Abeg let’s hear word. Joor, you don’t want beggars in Lagos, Let me tell u for ur information, even in America we have beggars there not to talk of Lagos state. mitcheeeew.
Yes.Governor Fashola is right.This is Lagos State not Kano or Sokoto or any Northern States.It is not the duty of Fashola to provide job for those shameless Hausas whose tradition is to beg and litter the streets.Let their various States to recall them and give them work if at all they can work as they are used to begging.How can I travel all the way from East to go and beg elsewhere.We the Igbos disapprove of such and I am sure the Yorubas frown at such.If the Northerners must beg let it be within their home or they must work elsewhere instead of constituting nuisance everywhere in the name of one Nigera.Most don’t go to Western school and so can’t fit in to office work or be relevant for anything.The Hausa/Fulanis have rule for long to address such shame but they didn’t.Is it Fashola who should do it for them in Lagos?Those using them for selfish business(I mean their brothers who courier them)should help them.Their transport fare to Lagos is enough for them to start business in small scale and grow.Fashola ride on!
a fool like you is this mumu gorn fashola a lagosian? y than jailing old men for begging
Okoronkwo, u 2 dey foolish u nd ur governor hw can u support bad tins God will show u from da ur word hw cn a person jail dos cn of men dnt u hav parent may alghty God shw u pple wat una plan nd we believe in sometin anytin dat u don 2 sum1 i der gud or bad God will shw u D tin
Jst 2 unfair
What a nonsense? Fashola and d so called judges are worst than fools, why will he jailed those old men, what are their offence. When do begging becomes offence in our country? After all they are more just and better than those thieves in our government houses.
If they will be able to meet up to pay the N5000 then, they have contributed to the Lagos economy…Haba Oga Fashola you should tempered justice with mercy oo
Pls Nigerians Lagos state governor seriously nid help(Moral help) bc he is d most foolish governor of d time.He was a hungry beggar before God remembered him or does he think that we Nigerians don’t know your history now u see beggars as refuse whereas u was once a beggar.How many time hav we heard dat u called them together nd shared atleast #100 each.Animal!
@ king animal calling fellow nigerians animal i am very sure u are not a yoruba and lacks coutesy u must b one of the lagos touts extorting from those beggars,fool ! ! fashola is nothing but cruel in this case, old men?…….oga gan o
Why wouldnt dis northern beggers go to their state to beg, why are they contributing nuisance to the society?
I shed tears when I read the posting and saw the picture. I do not know whether or not what was done was right or wrong. We all believe in one God, the Best Judge. Let us wait for His judgment as “whoever does an atom weight of good will see and whoever does an atom weight of bad will see.”