Crime & SecurityNewsTask Force Apprehended Beggar With N500, 000, $100 Cash

KADUNA — A 48-year-old beggar, Hadiza Ibrahim has been arrested by the Task Force of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Social Development Secretariat (SDS) in possession of N500,000 and 100 dollars.

The Beggar, an indigene of Kaduna State was said to have been apprehended by the secretariat’s task force many times.

Malam Sani Amar, Director, Social Welfare Services of the secretariat, confirmed the arrest yesterday, in Abuja, accused her of accumulating money she realized from begging over the years without investing it.

“She was apprehended on Feb. 9 with other beggars on Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent in Wuse II.

“In all honesty, we never knew that she had such an amount of money on her.

“What we normally do whenever we apprehend people, is to search them thoroughly to ensure that they do not carry any object that can harm them or our staff.

“Then, we profile them to know where they come from and what they are doing apart from begging.’’

“Our assessment within a decade that we have been apprehending Ibrahim, she seems to be socially deformed, not mentally, ” he said.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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