Lagos returns 3,105 poor persons, lunatics to six states


TO rid Lagos of lunatics and beggars, the state government has sent over 3,105 beggars and lunatics to their countries and states of origin.

The Special Adviser to the governor on Youth and Social Development Dr. Dolapo Badru, who disclosed this at a ministerial briefing yesterday in Lagos, said 3,044 of the beggars arrested had been sent away in the last one year.

Giving a breakdown of the statistics, Badru revealed that Sokoto State had the highest number of beggars with 196 arrested on Lagos streets, followed by Oyo State with 83, Kano State 75, Osun State 67, Ekiti 21, while Ondo State had seven.

On the number of lunatics, he said available statistic showed that Niger Republic had the highest number of beggars and lunatics arrested by having 12, Chad Republic two and Cote d’Ivoire had one.

Badru explained that the state government had zero tolerance for destitution and begging in the state, adding that picking of unwanted persons from streets of Lagos would be a continuous exercise.

He stressed that his office would continue to work together with security agencies to rid the city of these unwanted persons, saying it was an offence to indulge the beggars who troop to the state on daily basis to beg for alms.

On the essence of the state’s rehabilitation centre at Owutu, Ikorodu, where beggars, the destitute, mentally challenged and drug addicts picked from the roads are taken to, he said the state government would continue to make provision for facilities to help rehabilitate such persons.

He said the mentally unstable picked on the roads across the state would be given adequate medical attention, while 38 able-bodied persons among those picked on the roads who were suspected to be criminals had been handed over to the state task force for prosecution.

On adoption and fostering, Badru disclosed that various applications were received from prospective adopters, locally and internationally who were screened in order to determine their suitability for adopting children while 177 letters of approval were granted.

He disclosed that 126 children were adopted by members of the public and 11 released for fostering, adding that 174 children had their adoptions legalised through the Juvenile Court while additional 161 babies were rescued and referred to various government homes and private orphanages.

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Citizens deporting fellow citizens in one Nigeria. South south crude oil is the only thing one in this godforsaken nation. Nonsense.

Afonjas tribal card keep backfiring

This is Peter Obi's fault, since he deported some Northeners from Anambara during his tenure. Lagos State seems to have copied From him.

People should for once find out why the people are been sent back first, everything is politics my people. Let for once be reasonable.

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Which is the deportation activist Hell Rufai not responding to this

It is common knowledge that the beautification
project of the Babatunde Fashola Administration
has led to the deportation of hundreds of the
jetsam and the flotsam from Lagos state to their
states of origin. The elite and the media have
been celebrating the ban on “Okada” from the
major roads and the removal of traders and area
boys from the streets. For understandable
reasons, most of the hundreds of thousands of
poor people who have been displaced and
dislodged in the operation “keep Lagos clean” are
of the Yoruba extraction.
In fact, on April 9,2009, when the Lagos state
government deported 129 beggars of Oyo state
origin and dumped them at molete in Ibadan the
Alao Akala regime alleged that the action was
aimed at sabotaging his government. Just last
week, some beggars of osun state origin were
also deported by the Lagos state government and
dumped at Osogbo.
It is sad to note that most Nigerians never took
cognisance of the war being waged by state
governments against the poor and disadvantaged
citizens in the urban renewal policy until the
much publicised case of the 14 beggars of
Anambra state origin who were deported in Lagos
and dumped in Onitsha about three weeks ago. In
fact, it was the condemnation of the deportation
by the Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi
that drew the attention of the elite to the
unfortunate development. However, in defence of
its action the Lagos State Government stated that
it entered into an agreement with the Anambra
State Government through its liaison office in
Lagos on the controversial deportation.


]Although the Anambra State government has not denied the allegation that it was privy to the deportation of the 14 beggars it is on record that in Decmber 2011 the Peter Obi Administration had deported 29 beggars to their states of origin i.e Akwa Ibom and Ebonyi states . Apart from such official hypocrisy the Peter Obi regime did not deem it fit to protest when the Abia state government purged its civil service of “non-indigenes” in 2012. Many of the victims of the unjust policy who hail from Anambra state were left in the lurch.


In June 2011, the Federal Capital Territory
government deported 129 beggars to their
respective states of origin. In May 2013,
hundreds of beggars were also removed from the
streets and expelled from Abuja. Of course, it is
common knowledge that the FCT authorities has
continued to demolish residential houses without
following due process in order to “restore the
masterplan of Abuja” which was distorted
through corruption and abuse of office. The
majority of the victims of such illegal demolitions
who are poor have been dislocated and forced
out of FCT.
Last week, the Rivers State Government removed
113 Nigerians from the streets of Port Harcourt
and deported them to their states of origin. The Akwa Ibom state government has just contacted its Lagos counterpart of the planned deportation of two “mad” Lagosians roaming the streets of Uyo. Many other state governments are busy deporting beggars, mad men and other destitute in the on-going beautification of state capitals.
Those who are defending the Igbo beggars out of sheer ethnic irredentism should be advised to examine the socio-economic implications of the anti-people’s urbanisation policy being
implemented by the federal and state
governments in the overall interests of the
masses.

nigerianecho.com.ng/the-lagos-deportation-and-the-law/


The fact is that most governors are guilty of repriatating poor non-indigenes back to their states of origin.
Obi is an hypocrtical bigot and El'Rufai is an unrepentant bigot

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