Feeling concerned about the
nuisance caused by men and women who use children to beg for arms, Akwa
Ibom State government has been directed to take steps to remove them
from the streets.
The State House of Assembly gave the directive Thursday
after deliberation on a motion titled: “Stopping the Menace of
Able-bodied Men and Women Begging for Alms with Babies/Toddlers in the
Streets of Uyo” introduced by the Leader of the House, Rt. Hon. Udo
Kieran Akpan.
The lawmakers particularly
urged the State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare in
conjunction with Uyo Capital City Development Authority (UCCDA) to take
immediate action to rid the streets, junctions, traffic points and other
identified points in the state capital and its environs of people using
children to beg for alms.
They equally called on the
security agencies to interface with the beggars with a view to finding
out where they stay at night, their motives and, where possible, take
them out of the street.
The Commissioner for Women
Affairs in the state was also asked to design a system whereby young
vagrants and beggars are rescued from their exploiters and rehabilitated
in the motherless homes or other rehabilitation institutions.
By Okon Bassey
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