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Techfile: See How Beggars Have Taken Over The City Of Aba Running After Traffic For Alms - latest news
Beggars have taken over the streets of Aba, the
commercial city of Abia State, running after traffic
and soliciting for alms.
The street beggars are now found at every major
junction in the city where they stay under the sun
harassing passersby for alms.
From Bata junction to the popular Christ the King
Catholic, CKC, Church along Asa Road, Aba main
motor park, Asa by Asa Road junction, to Market
Road, an army of street beggars have taken over
every available space at major streets and roads of
the city.
Some of them are nursing mothers who run after
motorists begging for alms while the aged and the
sick place themselves at a vantage position on the
roadside. Some charity organisations and individuals
regularly visit them to share foodstuff, clothing and
medication.
South-East Voice observed that the beggars appear in
different styles; age and sex, even as some of them
cannot speak Igbo language. Most of the street
beggars are dressed in dirty clothing while others
engage sick children or the aged to attract sympathy.
In an interview with South-East Voice, a street
beggar at the gate of CKC Church, Asa Road, who is
a nursing mother and could not speak Igbo language,
said she was brought to Aba from a neighbouring
state to beg for alms and wants the government to
help her start a business.
It was discovered that some of these street beggars
usually retire to the frontage of the government
ministries located at the old Post office area and
Ngwa Cultural Centre where they sleep at night.
South-East Voice observed that a new twist has been
added to street begging in Aba as able-bodied men
and women are now seen at motor parks, offices
and business centres soliciting for alms. Others have
developed the habit of scavenging for food and alms
during public occasions like wedding, burial, house
opening and child dedication.
Speaking on the situation, Chairman, Civil Liberties
Organisation, Aba Unit, Prof. Charles Chinekezi, urged
the Abia State Government to build a home for the
aged and beggars to take them off the streets in the
city.
He attributed the problem of able-bodied men and
women taking to street begging to unemployment
and urged the government to introduce social welfare
programmes to check the trend.
“The problem of street begging in Aba has taken
a bad dimension. You can see them at any major
road, public offices and motor parks. It is
disturbing to see children who ought to be in
school running after traffic to beg for alms; it is
not in our interest because some of these
homeless children may grow up to haunt the
society tomorrow.
“Government can introduce skills acquisition
programmes to train children and build social
homes for the aged to take them off the
streets. Now, some able- bodied men have
taken to begging, it is high time government put
up social security programmes to cater for the
unemployed,” Chinekezi told South-East Voice.
When South-East Voice visited the Ministry of
Women Affairs and Social Development, the
Permanent Secretary, Mrs Nnenna Chikezie, was not
on seat.
However, an official of the Ministry who pleaded
anonymity said the state government is not resting
on her oars to tackle the problem of street begging in
Aba and added that some of the beggars are
dumped in the city from neighbouring states.
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