OK guys, this is an honest question.. sometimes I wonder if I am the only person that has thought and worried about this a lot of the time..

We all agree that while there are beggars from every tribe, the Hausa's are leading with a great margin.. but that's not my worry now.. my concern is that about 70% of them are disabled.. some with unbelievable deformities.

a large number of them are crippled in the legs or have deformed hands..

how?

is it a genetic thing for them? were they born that way? or they became crippled after birth? what could be the cause? I can't stop wondering..

every morning on the way to work I can hardly ignore the number of crippled Hausa beggars along the busstop.

what spurred this post was what I saw last Friday on the road beside the Ikeja city mall. I saw two young kids (boys). I swear they can't be more than 5years of age. one was crippled and sat on a kind of small flat wood with tiny tyres beneath as a means of moving about. the other was not crippled but then his right fingers were missing (from the wrist) with no visible wound or even an healed one.

they were looking totally content with begging, no parent or anybody I could see around them. below 5years! left alone to fend for themselves!!

just how do they get these deformities? why just the Hausa folks alone? how? why?

matured comments please... and let's not be tribalistic too..

The have boko haram... Fear of western education and everything that comes with it. They don't believe in immunization that why the north is bathed in polio. They don't go for ante natal so birth defects cannot be detected early and treated and they are dirty. Their food also is highly in nutritious that why you Harley see a chubby Hausa parson

Polio

I think its leprosy that causes everything

They've been refusing polio vaccinations. I saw a documentary with people with weathered limbs over there blaming vaccines.

one of the causes is close sibling marriage IE marrying or having children with cousins and other close relations. google it

Depends on what disability.
Mostly from marrying close relatives. Which should be illegal, even in an Islamic region, Nigeria should impliment laws against marrying siblings or 1st & 2nd cousins

dmz1:
one of the causes is close sibling marriage IE marrying or having children with cousins and other close relations. google it

Rivertemz:
Depends on what disability.
Mostly from marrying close relatives. Which should be illegal, even in an Islamic region, Nigeria should impliment laws against marrying siblings or 1st & 2nd cousins

What is wrong with some people? Small fries, the issue of such diabilities or mental disabilities occurring might be more frequent yet its by a very small margin. I mean why cant you say the same about this in the middle east where such marriages are prevalent?

Small fries, refer to the person right above you. These occur mainly due to medical negligence and a non chalant attitude towards vaccinations.