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How Abuja ‘wise’ beggar caught with $100 saved N500,000 from daily contribution
A beggar in Abuja who was caught with huge cash amounting to N500, 000 and $100 has narrated how she was able to accrue such an amount of cash.
The beggar identified as Hadiza Ibrahim while responding to questions from journalists said prior to her taking to street begging more than a decade ago, she was into clothes trading. According to her, she was forced to abandon the business due to increasing rate of bad debts.
Explaining how she accumulated the huge sum, the beggar who hails from Zaria, in Kaduna State said it was from her savings through N2,000 daily contribution, facilitated with whatever she realises from her begging on the streets.
Meanwhile, officials of the Social Development Secretariat (SDS) in the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) have given her a clean bill.
According to the administration, reports of its preliminary investigations showed that Hadiza has no links with drug peddlers, arms dealers, kidnap gangs, and other organized criminal syndicates.
What happened?
Hadiza was arrested a few days ago at a junction along the Ademola Adetokunbo Crescent, in Wuse 2 District of Abuja.
Reports of her profiling showed that she had been severally apprehended in the past 10 years by city officials for begging in designated places.
Result of Investigation
Acting Director, Social Welfare Services of the SDS, Malam Sani Amar, said; “Within our little knowledge and experience in discharging our duty, with the assistance of security personnel attached to us, we understand that Hadiza was not into any criminal activity and if you look at the money found in her possession, it was accumulated overtime.
“On the profiling we did on her, we gave the Police in our team time to play their role and they did what they could and it was clearly established that she was not into such nefarious acts.
“She was so wise to have selected the areas of her own begging business, where she realises huge money daily”.
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