Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Lagos State Gov. sends Cripple, 19 Beggars Sent To Jail 

A 45-year old cripple, Sunday Erim Udoyo and 19 others have been convicted by the Special Offences Court in Alausa for begging on the streets of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, and sent to jail.
The Lagos State Government declared war against begging and jailed over 120 beggars last year.

On Monday, the cripple and six others were convicted and sentenced accordingly by the court. Because of his predicament and being a hernia patient, Udoyo was convicted and remanded at the Lagos State Rehabilitation Centre, Majidun, where he will spend two years.

The crippled man was said to have been brought to Lagos by his relation, Sunday Etim, 26, from Cross River State, to beg so that they could raise fund to carry out hernia operation. But two of them were arrested while begging.

Etim got two years imprisonment without the option of fine along with Wasiu Abass, 24, while Udoyo was remanded at Majidun after they pleaded guilty to the charge against them.


Three others, two sisters and male beggars were also arraigned same day and sentenced to one year imprisonment without the option of fine after they pleaded guilty.  They are Peace Ezugwu, 24; Mercy Ezugwu, 26, and Dotun Owokiigbe, 20.

Culled from pmnewsnigeria

Why is it always easy and the judgment quick on the less privileged but always hard and never ending when it comes to passing judgment on those who have caused this ones to become helpless; the corrupt Nigerian Politicians. This a great injustice that must be corrected. When will the people ever get justice? When?

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