The Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo has handed one Ogechukwu Eneh over to the police for using a sick child for alms.
Mrs Obinabo who expressed sadness over the development, regretted that despite her numerous warnings for perpetrators to desist from such acts, many are still involved in it and onvowed not to let anyone who is caught go scot free.
The Women and Social Welfare Commissioner once again warned that Anambra state is not a place where crime thrives especially using children for begging and stated that she will continue to get as many defaulters as possible until sanity is brought to the state.
Ogechukwu Eneh aged twenty-seven, from Udi, in Enugu state was caught at Oyeolisa Ogbunike using a ten-Year-old girl from Benue for begging.
When interrogated on why she decided on such law-breaking venture, Miss Eneh said she was only trying to help the ten-year-old and her family solicit support from the public in order to get money for the child’s medical treatment.
She informed the Commissioner that the said girl is suffering from tumor disease hence the reason why her tummy was protruded.
On when she started the business, she noted that she started begging with kids since December 2022, and has been able to make the sum of one hundred thousand naira as against the sum of four hundred thousand naira their doctor charged for the surgery.
After the questioning, she was handed over to the Ogidi police division and the case transferred to state Criminal Investigative Department in Awka and will soon be arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender Based Violence Magistrate court in Awka.
Mrs Obinabo later took the ten-year old to the hospital for medical examination and possible treatment.
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