BERGERS
One
hundred and twenty beggars and destitute have been convicted just as
1,708 of them were sent packing from Lagos State to their various states
and countries by the government.
Special Adviser to the Governor on Youth
and Social Development, Dr. Dolapo Badru, said this on Thursday during a
press conference in Ikeja.
Reacting to the civil society
organisations’s condemnation of the government’s clampdown on beggars,
he said the present administration respected the rights of persons
living with disabilities, adding that government would, however, not
bend the law when such groups of persons fall foul of the law.
