The Federal Capital Territory Administration’s (FCTA) Social Development Secretariat (SDS) arrested Hadiza Ibrahim, 48, with N500,000 and a $100 bill.
Malam Sani Amar, the secretariat’s Director of Social Welfare Services, confirmed the arrest on Tuesday in Abuja.
Ibrahim, a Kaduna State native, was described by Amar as one of the many die-hard beggars apprehended by the secretariat’s taskforce.
The director accused the beggar of amassing money from begging over the years and not investing it.
Amar said, “It was very fortunate that on Feb. 9, Ibrahim was apprehended among other beggars on Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent in Wuse II.
“In all honesty, we never knew that she has such amount of money on her.
“What we normally do whenever we apprehend people we search them thoroughly to ensure that they do not carry any object that can harm them or our staff.
“Then, we profile them to know where they come from and what they are doing apart from begging.’’
According to the director, based on our assessment over the decade that we have been apprehending Ibrahim, she appears to be socially deformed rather than mentally deformed.
“She knows what she is doing, she can differentiate between right and wrong,’’ he said.
Amar described Ibrahim as “economical saboteur’’.
“There are many people looking for 10 per cent of what she has as capital to do a business that would sustain them without resorting to begging.
“But she is here with N500,000 plus 100 dollars notes which is N57,000 equivalent yet not investing it and still pretending to be poor beggar who has nothing to eat.
“So, in our own way as social councilors, we will subject her to psychosocial therapy because she has social deformity,’’ he said.
Amar said that the woman would be subjected to a condition to make her to realise that she “is physically fit, mentally alert to do certain things for herself without resorting to begging’’.
The director insisted that the money was hers.
According to him, she will be rehabilitated at the FCT Vocational and Rehabilitation Centre in Bwari Area Council.
Previously, the beggar told NAN that she had been begging on Abuja’s streets for the past ten years.
“I used to come out daily from 4 p.m. to 11p.m. to beg for money around Wuse II and Maitama. Sometimes rich people around the area give me N5,000 or N10,000 and even dollars.
“If I get huge amount of money, I will travel to my hometown, Kwanan Danja in Zaria, Kaduna state and when the money is finished I will come back.
“The day I was apprehended with the money, I came out with it to buy kitchen utensils for my daughter who will be getting married very soon.
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