He gave the advice as his men at the Social Development Secretariat (SDS) in the FCT yesterday cleared a notorious beggar in the city, Hadiza Ibrahim who was arrested few days ago with N500,000 and $100 cash. According to the FCTA, reports of preliminary investigations showed that Hadiza has no links with drug peddlers, arms dealers, kidnap gangs, and other organized criminal syndicates, as suspected. Instead, officials said the money was an accumulation of her N2,000 daily contribution (ajo).
She was arrested at a junction along the Ademola Adetokunbo Crescent, in Wuse 2 District in Abuja, but her profiling reports showed that she had been severally apprehended in the past 10 years by city officials for begging in designated places. She has been a notorious beggar.
“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”, acting Director of the SDS, Malam Sani Amar said.
According to him, Hadiza, who hails from Zaria, in Kaduna State is one of the die-hard beggars who had been severally apprehended by the secretariat’s taskforce from the streets in highbrow areas of the FCT.