Lagos to repatriate 226 beggars arrested in statewide raid

Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources successful Lagos State, Tokunbo Wahab, has disclosed that the 226 beggars arrested during a statewide enforcement workout on Thursday will beryllium repatriated to their assorted states of origin.

The individuals were apprehended by operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Task Force successful collaboration with the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps during a coordinated cognition carried retired crossed antithetic parts of the state.

In a connection issued aft the exercise, Wahab explained that the cognition formed portion of the authorities government’s ongoing biology clean-up and enforcement run aimed astatine enhancing nationalist information and maintaining biology sanity.

According to him, the workout specifically targeted thoroughfare begging activities, which helium said lend to biology contamination and represent a nationalist nuisance successful the state.

“In continuation of the ongoing regular clean-up and enforcement workout crossed Lagos State, a full of 226 beggars were apprehended today,” the commissioner stated.

He noted that the enforcement workout was jointly conducted by the 2 agencies and added that those arrested would archetypal acquisition due profiling and documentation earlier being relocated to their respective ...