Lagos govt arrests 62 street beggars, children in Ajah, Lekki

The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps has arrested 62 radical during an enforcement cognition aimed astatine curbing thoroughfare begging successful the Ajah and Lekki areas of the state.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed this successful a station connected X, stating that the cognition resulted successful the apprehension of 29 thoroughfare beggars and 33 children allegedly being exploited for amerciable thoroughfare begging.

Wahab said the individuals arrested during the workout had been handed implicit to the applicable authorities for further action.

“A full of 62 individuals, comprising 29 thoroughfare beggars and 33 children allegedly being exploited for amerciable thoroughfare begging, were apprehended by operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps during an enforcement cognition successful the Ajah and Lekki areas of Lagos State.

“They person each been transferred to the due authorities for indispensable action,” helium wrote.

The latest arrests came days aft the corps apprehended 215 thoroughfare beggars successful a abstracted enforcement cognition conducted successful antithetic parts of Lagos.

Wahab had disclosed successful an X station connected Saturday that the earlier workout was part...