The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has vowed to arrest and prosecute syndicate that always bring beggars into Abuja in large numbers from states across the country.
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This is as a combined team of Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) and Social Development Secretariat (SDS) on Tuesday in Abuja went round the FCC and make arrest of about 150 beggars constituting nuisance in the nation’s capital.
However, the Chairman, FCT Ministerial Taskforce on City Sanitation, Comrade Ikharo Attah, made this disclosure while briefing newsmen after enforcement exercise on Tuesday in Abuja, saying, its part of the FCTA renewed efforts to rid the Federal Capital City (FCC) of public nuisances and enhance adequate security.
His words: “We realized that the syndicate drops them at strategic positions in town to make money for them. FCT is going all out to get them and ensure that they are prosecuted.
“In the last two days over 150 beggars have been apprehended across the city and more arrest is still ongoing.
“But what is very fundamental and cardinal some of these persons are being brought by other persons into the FCT. You will see young people guarding blind aged men, we felt that is not what the city should be.
“We also felt for them that is why the FCTA is investing resources to train them. However, we are targeting very strongly the syndicate that always bring them to into Abuja in large number from states across the country.
He continued: “The FCTA authority observed with dismay the alarming rate of beggars in the city throughout the Ramadan period due to high level of arms giving and charity by individual and corporate organisations.
“Those apprehended were taken to the Bwari Area Council Center for Rehabilitation, adding that FCT has a functional rehabilitation and training centre for such persons.
“Sadly, very few of them stay there and get fully rehabilitated, while many others find their way to run and sometimes they request to be allowed to go back to their states,” he added.
On his part, Mr Kaka Bello, Head of Monitoring and Inspection (AEPB), said begging was nuisance related, adding that AEPB was determined to rid the city of all kinds of environmental nuisance.
He also explained that the activities of beggars were a kind of nuisance that was supposed to be abated, assuring that the operation would be sustained.
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