Nigeria’s Rivers state government has sent to their home states, some
of the 113 beggars and lunatics removed from the streets of
Port-Harcourt, the capital city. And the state has warned it will soon
embark on another removal exercise.
The Chairman of the committee, Mr Mina Jamabo, said of the 113
beggars, destitute and lunatics removed from the streets,some had been
taken to the state’s rehabilitation centres for treatment.
Jamabo said that non-indigenes had since been repatriated to their
various states, while the indigenes would be treated by the government
until they were fit to re-unite with their families.
Jambo did not give the figure of the destitute sent to their home states.
Mrs Stella Toby, Permanent Secretary in the state’s Ministry of
Social Welfare and Rehabilitation however unfurled government fresh
plans to remove beggars and destitute from streets in the state.
She made the announcement in an interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday.
She said that beggars, destitute and mentally-ill people were
constituting problems on some major streets and roads in the state.
Toby said the State Government had set up a special committee charged
with the responsibility of restoring sanity on major areas of the
state.
“Most of the beggars are from neighbouring states and I can assure
you that they will be removed from the streets and repatriated back to
their respective states,” she said.
A similar exercise by the Lagos State Government recently generated
bad blood between Governor Raji Fashola and Governor Peter Obi of
Anambra State. Fashola’s government had sent home 14 rehabilitated
destitute to Onitsha in Anambra state.
Source PM News
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