The
Kano State Hisbah Board yesterday said it arrested no fewer than 92 beggars in
the Kano metropolis for allegedly contravening the law against street begging.
The
Officer-in-Charge of the board’s Anti-Begging Unit, Dahiru Nuhu, said the
beggars were arrested around 1am at the Civic Centre, Yankura Market, as well
as Yankaba bus stop.
Nuhu
said 89 of the arrested suspects were street urchins, otherwise known as
Almajiris, aged between nine and 12, while most of the beggars according to him
were from Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna, Kebbi, Katsina and Niger Republic.
The
Kano state government, through the Hisbah Board, had banned street begging in
the state and warned that anyone caught violating the law will be arrested.
All
those arrested so far for street begging within the period of the ban, who were
not from Kano state, were sent back to their respective states of origin.
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