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Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by remarkD(m): 5:38am On Aug 03, 2013
I hope you left this thread to go and learn how to count....

See how bigotry and hate (for people who have done nothing to you and your likes) makes you dumb&dumber...

So from the 29th of July to the 2nd of August is 7 days?

Haters might not know it as it happens.... but you tread on a path of destruction and the inevitable end will be a pity, a shame, embarrassment and disgrace... I mean, for someone that has a bit of meaning in life ending up dead as a rat just because of unnecessary hatred and bigotry....

You and your type have reached and moving past the first stage of self-destruction - you lose your common sense and are blinded (by hate) to rationality...

The other day it was Kats that was helping another fella on the same path as you to see and use common sense which was blank and bare in his face, but because it was coming from an Igbo.... (or "ibo" as you like to use) .... he was unable to "see" and understand.... again, the sad thing is, he doesn't know that he is losing it...

and now you, simple and ordinary counting... what my 3 year old niece can do, is impossible for an adult like yourself.... (even if you a kid... an unintelligent kid you are, now).

I could be glad and happy that you guys are losing your minds and deserve to end up as your sage did after killing 2 million Igbos he was trying to get back to and "stand over".... but we aint like that bro, and I say to you.... a cliché it may be... don't hate, appreciate....

Give it a second shot and try to count the correct answer... from 29th of July to 2nd of August is?

ilugunboy:

When is the retaliation.....pls hurry up....am tired of reading endless threats....


OUK seven days threat has passed...the bagger has chicken out like the coward he truly is....
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by myola(m): 7:21am On Aug 03, 2013
gtrust:

Government have official phone numbers and email addresses.
If it was money belonging ti Anambra state, you come to the agreed place and assume you are right that the recipient did not show, you will drop the money at 2am in a government office at the bridge head and reverse your car and return to Lagos

These are human-beings like you
You keep the Igbos that pay taxes and you deports the weak and hungry

YORUBA OR APC Who do we blame
Blame APC, not yoruba. The party runs Anti-poor policy. That is why u will not see them touch d rich rich people inrespective of their tribe.

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Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by Timsogbuagu: 7:37am On Aug 03, 2013
Ngwakwe: The same way you never accepted Obasanjo, Akala, Gbenga Daniel and other Yoruba PDP Stewart's point of view as it related to South West.

go ask ur fada
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by kingpersonally: 8:15am On Aug 03, 2013
Cynsky76: So if dey didnt invite u ,u wouldnt hav done anytin.hmmmmm dis is somdoby rpresnting us ooo
. Am a yoruba man infact ï wish ï speak บя language ς๑ร ï lyk igbos co-ordination so ๓บςн 2 my race but der mayb truth in dis mans arguemt or submitn my broda
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by hardbody: 9:10am On Aug 03, 2013
Adam200: Instead of the igbos to thank Gov fashola they are there bashing him, calling him all sort of names. I want all the igbos to learn from "GHANA MUST GO" go home and develop ur states

....and who developed Lagos?

....when a fool types, you can only expect to read foolishness.....

Eediet.
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by millionaireman: 9:26am On Aug 03, 2013
LADY OF RAGE: ngige,you should be bothered about fashola and APC spoiling your chances of becoming anambra governor.what say you about that?
Ngige has finally joined the losing politicians' group. Humans are not transported on open trailers.
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by millionaireman: 9:34am On Aug 03, 2013
LADY OF RAGE: ngige,you should be bothered about fashola and APC spoiling your chances of becoming anambra governor.what say you about that?
Ngige has finally joined the losing politicians' group. Humans are not transported on open trailers. Gov. Fashola was very malicious in that his act. His SAN title needs to be removed.
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by superstar1(m): 9:42am On Aug 03, 2013
sexkillzisacunt: which sorry states? outside Lagos which was developed by colonial masters and all Nigerians, what other south west states can be compared to Enugu or Imo? Lagos is the only south west state that doesn't have a yoruba name and that's because Lagos is for all. Check out the typical yoruba states like Ekiti and you have a better idea of what yorubas can do.

So it was your grand father that named Lagos or have you not heard of Eko-Ile before. Which of your village state is bearing English name.
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by superstar1(m): 9:44am On Aug 03, 2013
Xriss:

Did Yorubas develop Lagos or was it the federal government that developed Lagos ....... Shallow brain

Really, the way FGN developed Calabar, so it belongs to all of us too
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by Midastouch1: 9:59am On Aug 03, 2013
#1-stunner:
But come oo @lee007 u no get sense oo!! Who told u an ibo man can neva b president ode oshi

It can never never happen. Despite all the reconciliation BS...Nigerians have not forgotten 1967-1970. You will always be followers I am afraid
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by wakaman: 10:32am On Aug 03, 2013
A divorce is best at these times. The saying to a woman in a marriage gone sour " go back to your father's house" is most appropriate. Igbos go back to your father land!!!!!!
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by maximunimpact(m): 11:27am On Aug 03, 2013
Ok agreed, fashola's actions is condemnable, Ngige erred by covering the truth........so what is Peter Obi going to do? Abandon d destitutes like Fash did? Or accomodate the 14 Anambrarians and deport the rest like Fashola did? If he end up not making the life of those destitutes and the ones roaming around Anambra state better, he has don notin. Atleast Fashola did somtin about destitutes! So let's watch if Peter Obi and the other state govts will do somtin about less previleged ppl, if nobody comes up wit a better idea, Fashola remains the man with wisdom!
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by lawkenoz(m): 11:56am On Aug 03, 2013
LADY OF RAGE: Frankly speaking!!
now that statement was very ignorant of you. Do u want me to tell you how many yorubas have been slaughtered up north and none of you say anything about it. I stay in jos and recall how many muslim and xtain yorubas where slaugtered by the northereners. Or is it in kano where the bomb blast kill pple of all tribes? Incase u don't know try asking, as long as its an open fight in the north ask the hausas who is casualty in the north they would relate to you better! In jos I live in apata a completely igbo community no igbo blood was shed there because they couldn't even dream of coming close, but the igbos that were dumb enough to live in hausa communitied dey paid for it dearly. Let me not even talk of the muslim yourubas that lived there nd thought they were safe. The same hausas you just mentioined killed them nd their families like they were animals! Many of the yorubas thought because they were muslims they would be spared but the case was different, wen they were attacked they said they weren't igbos, nd the reply dey got was "its not the igbos were after is u infidels who are neither muslims nor xtains we came for". The crux of the matter is that muslim hausas don't see the yoruba muslims eg ansarudeen as true muslims during their jihad or wateva. U yourubas do owambe nd throw parties nd drink alcohol nd islam forbids drinking of alcohol. So they see yorubas as impure muslims, they mete out to your folks the same brutality dey would mete out to an igbo man. For your information all the amahausa markets in the east have their sarki, no igbo man is made their market leader. Same in lokpanta anambra state where they bring their cattle, they have theirr maiangwar there nd their leader is a hausa man!all they do is pay taxes to the state! So please say what you knw not what u don't! Boko haram is a terror organisation nd kills even their own not just igbos!

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Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by mAdBulleT(m): 12:46pm On Aug 03, 2013
hardbody:

....and who developed Lagos?

....when a fool types, you can only expect to read foolishness.....

Eediet.
may be I should tell you...
nA YOuR PAPA DEVELOP am, when he was governor... Remember
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by mAdBulleT(m): 1:10pm On Aug 03, 2013
lawkenoz: now that statement was very ignorant of you. Do u want me to tell you how many yorubas have been slaughtered up north and none of you say anything about it. I stay in jos and recall how many muslim and xtain yorubas where slaugtered by the northereners. Or is it in kano where the bomb blast kill pple of all tribes? Incase u don't know try asking, as long as its an open fight in the north ask the hausas who is casualty in the north they would relate to you better! In jos I live in apata a completely igbo community no igbo blood was shed there because they couldn't even dream of coming close, but the igbos that were dumb enough to live in hausa communitied dey paid for it dearly. Let me not even talk of the muslim yourubas that lived there nd thought they were safe. The same hausas you just mentioined killed them nd their families like they were animals! Many of the yorubas thought because they were muslims they would be spared but the case was different, wen they were attacked they said they weren't igbos, nd the reply dey got was "its not the igbos were after is u infidels who are neither muslims nor xtains we came for". The crux of the matter is that muslim hausas don't see the yoruba muslims eg ansarudeen as true muslims during their jihad or wateva. U yourubas do owambe nd throw parties nd drink alcohol nd islam forbids drinking of alcohol. So they see yorubas as impure muslims, they mete out to your folks the same brutality dey would mete out to an igbo man. For your information all the amahausa markets in the east have their sarki, no igbo man is made their market leader. Same in lokpanta anambra state where they bring their cattle, they have theirr maiangwar there nd their leader is a hausa man!all they do is pay taxes to the state! So please say what you knw not what u don't! Boko haram is a terror organisation nd kills even their own not just igbos!
don't create any rift between hausas and the yorubas...because this Boko haram sect are against Nigerians n not yorubas. They kill anybody that comes their way. They even slaughter their hausa brothers like ram, for attending schools... If u can recall, 17 students and 8 teachers were slaughtered by BH in borno this year
One NIGERIA, na him BE the ANSWER O!
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by Nobody: 1:47pm On Aug 03, 2013
Texas.Cowgirl:
This is the time Yorubas need to wake up.

Stop being docile and "sophisticated".

You are not too "sophisticated" to protect your image.

Ibos should not be handed monopoly over tribalism.

When Ibo almajiris point at you and call your land poverty-stricken, who will correct them?

When they devalue your land, home, family, sons, daughter, who will speak out?

You need to wake up.....

There's a private Ibo forum where Yorubas are discussed daily, basically on how to destroy their image on NL, yet you sit there and keep quiet because you're too sophisticated.

Wake up.
You again...am sure you and desola have things in common....anyway i will deal with you personally
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by Ngwakwe: 2:07pm On Aug 03, 2013
There's no need for this insult.

I can't leave you in a scene of accident if you need my help and I believe you wouldn't leave me either.

We are humans irrespective of our differences.

Tims-ogbuagu:
go ask ur fada
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by Nobody: 2:32pm On Aug 03, 2013
superstar1:

Really, the way FGN developed Calabar, so it belongs to all of us too

My friend shut up, was Calabar Nigerian Capital when Nigeria was a country and is ruled by Nigerians as independent country. Calabar was not even regional HQ. the OIl boom money from SE and SS was spent on LAGOS only, now you idiots want to claim ownership.... we are one country and all and sundry will live in LAGOS
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by thekoko007: 2:38pm On Aug 03, 2013
you are a big fool ngige.
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by drnoel: 5:18pm On Aug 03, 2013
oshyno: When you think it will get better for Ngige it turns South again. He just shot himself on the foot by endorsing this inhuman act of Fashola simply bcuz u are frm same party. Dumb move IMO.
still dwelling on it, or fuelling the already sore situation is like pouring coal or petrol in2 fire. Ma brodas, let it drop....Allow the situation 2 die a natural death, atleast we now know who is who and where we now stand with most of these politicians...
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by Kollins12: 5:53pm On Aug 03, 2013
Tribalism, Ethnicity, Sentiments, unwarranted hatred and envy of the Yorubas by these so called Igbos or Ibos for all I care, and that is why you are the most loser in Nigerian power play.
So the Yorubas should sit down complacently and allow these Ruffians and Ingrates populate the streets of Lagos with Destitutes and turn our society to Arena for ritual and ransom kidnaps,ehee ,otioo,Olorun onije karaoko wa bekoje,Ekoo onibaje o,Obajeti.
Go back home and develop your own Regions so that you can also sit back home rather than coming to beg to eat from the palms of those you so much despised. Until you learn to adopt politics of self determination rather than follow-follow Northern politics you will continue to follow.
The Yorubas will continue to fight for their right and stand on our own while still getting our fair share rather than being complacent and lamenting. Chris Ngige ,I will forever respect your gentlemanly postures and a show of sufficient integrity.
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by Iffygod(m): 7:31pm On Aug 03, 2013
Mr Ngige, that Im highly disapointed in u is still an understatement. Can u hear urself? U supported fashola in the Inhuman treatment he meted to ur brother just because u want to be gov. U better warn fashola & Tinubu not to come to Anambra 4 ur campaigh because they wil not like d other side of us if they come. And as 4 u, i felt 4 u because Fashola has killed u politically with dat his inhuman act.
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by giles14(m): 9:11pm On Aug 03, 2013
Adam200: Instead of the igbos to thank Gov fashola they are there bashing him, calling him all sort of names. I want all the igbos to learn from "GHANA MUST GO" go home and develop ur states
ghana must go!!!!!!! Hw is ghana compared to nigeria now?wot wil hapen to lagos wil b unbearable wot hapened to nigeria
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by advocate666: 9:24pm On Aug 03, 2013
Ngige! I advocate666, servant of His Majesty, Lucifer the Great, bring the eternal curse of darkness on yourself and those around you.
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by Yinkatu: 4:12am On Aug 04, 2013
[quote author=mikeansy]The points some people are missing here

Anambra State does not need to respond to such ridiculous request by the Lagos State Government to Forcefully relocate Nigerians. Under Nigerian law everyone has every right to live in any State!

Lagos State and quite frankly Fashola needs to be taken to court over this nonsense policy.

How can you deport Nigerians or forcefully require Nigerians to move elsewhere. It does not matter whether Anambra State was contacted and quite frankly Peter Obi Government should have reminded Fashola of the right of all Nigerians to live anywhere in the country when they made that request

Silence means consent! Obi should have said no if he hadn't thrown such stone before. Don't kill yourself the relocated guys are happy eating Akpu now.
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by Yinkatu: 4:15am On Aug 04, 2013
naptu2:

Who agreed to have the transfer done there? Wasn't it the Anambra State Government? Why didn't they show up? How come there was no controversy when Akwa-Ibom State had a transfer with the Lagos State Government? What do you even know about this policy? Do you think this is the first time people have been relocated? Do you know that even Lagos indigenes are re-integrated within Lagos?

Isn't this just another one of your ploys to whip up sentiments?
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by Yinkatu: 4:20am On Aug 04, 2013
Why so much noise about their time of arrival at Onitsha.......goodnight Lagos, good morning Onitsha with armed escorts to protect them.They were taken to the government facility close ti the bridge. 4am is a very idea time to get to Onitsha those going into the interior will get home in broadday light. This is good sense.

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Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by Yinkatu: 4:33am On Aug 04, 2013
Xriss:

Did Yorubas develop Lagos or was it the federal government that developed Lagos ....... Shallow brain

This submission shows you came to lagos in 2000s that's why you are not able to comprehend the transformation of lagos state abandoned by FG to Lagos State developed by Tinubu and Fashola - the honorable governors.

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Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by nigger009(m): 7:30am On Aug 04, 2013
Adam200: Instead of the igbos to thank Gov fashola they are there bashing him, calling him all sort of names. I want all the igbos to learn from "GHANA MUST GO" go home and develop ur states
Mr. Man, shut up that dirty mouth of yours!
Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by EnigmAries(m): 9:46am On Aug 04, 2013
Posted by Orient Dailyon March 28, 2013in Features, News| 34 Comments
Ekpone Francis/Odogwu Christian
On Wednesday, no fewer than 200 beggars were arrested in and around Anambra state capital by a combined team of social workers and security agents led by the Ministry of Women Affairs, Anambra state.
That day, beggars who ordinarily were “blind,” “deaf” and “dumb”, saw, heard and spoke while running for their dear lives. At Abagana, a blind woman with her guide was arrested. Thesupposedly blind beggar had suddenly “regained” her sight, tearing race andwould in fact have beaten those that came to arrest her but for the timely intervention of some vigilante operatives.
At Amawbia, a man from Nise, who allegedly built a house and trains his children even up to the university education level with proceeds from his begging, was arrested. The man, apparently in his early 70s, claimed that he can’t leave begging until he dies. Hewas, however, picked up by the Women Affairs Ministry team.
At the popular UNIZIK junction and Eke Awka axis, beggars ran as far as their legs could carry them. Two boys, apparently in their mid-twenties, were seen begging with all tenacity of purpose. They were bold.
When the two were accosted by the social workers, they fiercely resisted arrest but for the collective effort of the security operatives. They were well dressed wielding phones and carrying a laminated picture of a woman called Chizoba from Nsukka who was purportedly suffering from stomach cancer. The two boys were begging in the name of this cancer patient who, according to them, was at Enugu.
These “special brand” of beggars had not the least remorse for the trade they had chosen, wondering why on earth anybody should arrest them when they were running a legitimate charity venture registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). The two “corporate” beggars gave their names as Anichebe Okwudili from Eziaguin Enugu State and Onyebuchi Ona (who initially gave his name as Ekene) from Udi, Enugu State. They were purportedly begging for certain Humanitarian Welfare Rescue Mission with headquarters in Abuja. However, the documents they wielded while begging bore the name “Good Seed International Association.” They gave the name of their boss as one Mesika who they claimed lives at Enugu and known to every social worker.
On the other hand, they identified their boss at Onitsha as a Pastor with Office atIsabella Hotel in the town. Effort to get the said pastor was, however, still confronting confusion as at the time of filing this report. The man at Enugu switched off after initially begging through phone that his boys be released as his organization is registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission for begging. The beggars said their lowest daily earning is N11, 000 which is usuallydivided among them, the organization and the patients they were begging for.
Confirming the arrest, Director, Social Welfare, Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Rose Udeagbara, said the beggars were takenoff the streets during an operation to clear the streets of the capital city of beggars and destitutes but the arrested persons have been sent to the vocationaland rehabilitation centre at Nteje.
Mrs Udeagbara informed that at the vocational centre, the social workers took documentation of the arrested persons to enable them either rehabilitate them in any of the skill acquisition centres in the state or repatriate and reunite them with their families.
She admitted that some will be sent to psychiatric hospital before reintegration.Udeagbara affirmed that the Governor Peter Obi administration, since coming on board seven years ago, has not closed its eyes on any of the sectors or segments of the society, including mad people.
In her remarks earlier, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Lady Henrietta Agbata, insisted that families should takecare of their member, that are challenged mentally or otherwise to avoid beggars constituting nuisance in the state.
Agbata reiterated that Anambra state indigenes are not known for begging andthat most of the beggars came from neighbouring states, influencing Anambra indigenes to start learning to beg.
“You can see that many of these beggars are from outside Anambra mainly Enugu, Ebonyi and Akwa Ibom states. We have most people from the Northern Nigeria and other states based on the previous raids; even some came in from Niger Republic.
“They are causing nuisance and littering the streets even when Anambra state indigenes are not used to begging. We would repatriate non-indigenes and rehabilitate those that are in that category by empowering them with skillswithin six months. They should stop molesting people and people should try and contain their family members.”
But Useni Mohammed from Niger Republic, who said he is 16 years, has a father who is a driver at Onitsha that gives him minimum daily target to meet from begging. He said he has a twin sister and that the two are known as”Emeka” and “Amaka” and that theywere born at Onitsha.
Another beggar, Mr Joseph Eze from Achi, Enugu state, informed that he was a businessman based in Yola before he had an accident that forced him into begging sequel to lack of assistance. He appealed for N300, 000 to be given to him by the Anambra state government toget himself fixed in a business but warned that nobody should give him anything less than N300,000 as such would not be enough for him.
Similarly, Alice Okeke, 37, from Nimo, Anambra State and a staff member of Anambra State Waste Management Agency (ASWAMA) who uses her disableddaughter to beg, claimed they got N500 everyday as transport after her sweeping job.
The raid tagged, “Clearing of Beggars/Destitute off the Streets, Roads, Markets and Public Places,” was commended by a public commentator and member Management Committee Market 3 Eke Awka, Mr Onyenwe Anagor. He said that what Governor Peter Obi-ledstate government is doing to clear beggars from the streets is good because they constitute nuisance. He, however, appealed to the state government to rehabilitate the beggars and the destitute.
Principal of the Vocational/Rehabilitation Centre, Nteje, Mrs Chinyere Iguomu, said although the home has about 32 students who are challenged and about 18 destitute people, they were on holiday now.
It was, however, observed that the students of the centre were not being taken care of by the state government asthey were promised. The students, although physically/or mentally challenged, still fend for themselves.
If the raid remains consistent and the team equally visits Onitsha and Nnewi aswell as other emerging cities in Anambra, much more could be achieved in urban renewal by the Obi-led administration.
http://orientnewspaper.com/meet-beggars-registered-by-corporate-affairs-commission-as-women-affairs-ministry-heals-blind-deaf-in-anambra/

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Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by Midastouch1: 9:51am On Aug 04, 2013
EnigmAries: Posted by Orient Dailyon March 28, 2013in Features, News| 34 Comments
Ekpone Francis/Odogwu Christian
On Wednesday, no fewer than 200 beggars were arrested in and around Anambra state capital by a combined team of social workers and security agents led by the Ministry of Women Affairs, Anambra state.
That day, beggars who ordinarily were “blind,” “deaf” and “dumb”, saw, heard and spoke while running for their dear lives. At Abagana, a blind woman with her guide was arrested. Thesupposedly blind beggar had suddenly “regained” her sight, tearing race andwould in fact have beaten those that came to arrest her but for the timely intervention of some vigilante operatives.
At Amawbia, a man from Nise, who allegedly built a house and trains his children even up to the university education level with proceeds from his begging, was arrested. The man, apparently in his early 70s, claimed that he can’t leave begging until he dies. Hewas, however, picked up by the Women Affairs Ministry team.
At the popular UNIZIK junction and Eke Awka axis, beggars ran as far as their legs could carry them. Two boys, apparently in their mid-twenties, were seen begging with all tenacity of purpose. They were bold.
When the two were accosted by the social workers, they fiercely resisted arrest but for the collective effort of the security operatives. They were well dressed wielding phones and carrying a laminated picture of a woman called Chizoba from Nsukka who was purportedly suffering from stomach cancer. The two boys were begging in the name of this cancer patient who, according to them, was at Enugu.
These “special brand” of beggars had not the least remorse for the trade they had chosen, wondering why on earth anybody should arrest them when they were running a legitimate charity venture registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). The two “corporate” beggars gave their names as Anichebe Okwudili from Eziaguin Enugu State and Onyebuchi Ona (who initially gave his name as Ekene) from Udi, Enugu State. They were purportedly begging for certain Humanitarian Welfare Rescue Mission with headquarters in Abuja. However, the documents they wielded while begging bore the name “Good Seed International Association.” They gave the name of their boss as one Mesika who they claimed lives at Enugu and known to every social worker.
On the other hand, they identified their boss at Onitsha as a Pastor with Office atIsabella Hotel in the town. Effort to get the said pastor was, however, still confronting confusion as at the time of filing this report. The man at Enugu switched off after initially begging through phone that his boys be released as his organization is registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission for begging. The beggars said their lowest daily earning is N11, 000 which is usuallydivided among them, the organization and the patients they were begging for.
Confirming the arrest, Director, Social Welfare, Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Rose Udeagbara, said the beggars were takenoff the streets during an operation to clear the streets of the capital city of beggars and destitutes but the arrested persons have been sent to the vocationaland rehabilitation centre at Nteje.
Mrs Udeagbara informed that at the vocational centre, the social workers took documentation of the arrested persons to enable them either rehabilitate them in any of the skill acquisition centres in the state or repatriate and reunite them with their families.
She admitted that some will be sent to psychiatric hospital before reintegration.Udeagbara affirmed that the Governor Peter Obi administration, since coming on board seven years ago, has not closed its eyes on any of the sectors or segments of the society, including mad people.
In her remarks earlier, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Lady Henrietta Agbata, insisted that families should takecare of their member, that are challenged mentally or otherwise to avoid beggars constituting nuisance in the state.
Agbata reiterated that Anambra state indigenes are not known for begging andthat most of the beggars came from neighbouring states, influencing Anambra indigenes to start learning to beg.
“You can see that many of these beggars are from outside Anambra mainly Enugu, Ebonyi and Akwa Ibom states. We have most people from the Northern Nigeria and other states based on the previous raids; even some came in from Niger Republic.
“They are causing nuisance and littering the streets even when Anambra state indigenes are not used to begging. We would repatriate non-indigenes and rehabilitate those that are in that category by empowering them with skillswithin six months. They should stop molesting people and people should try and contain their family members.”
But Useni Mohammed from Niger Republic, who said he is 16 years, has a father who is a driver at Onitsha that gives him minimum daily target to meet from begging. He said he has a twin sister and that the two are known as”Emeka” and “Amaka” and that theywere born at Onitsha.
Another beggar, Mr Joseph Eze from Achi, Enugu state, informed that he was a businessman based in Yola before he had an accident that forced him into begging sequel to lack of assistance. He appealed for N300, 000 to be given to him by the Anambra state government toget himself fixed in a business but warned that nobody should give him anything less than N300,000 as such would not be enough for him.
Similarly, Alice Okeke, 37, from Nimo, Anambra State and a staff member of Anambra State Waste Management Agency (ASWAMA) who uses her disableddaughter to beg, claimed they got N500 everyday as transport after her sweeping job.
The raid tagged, “Clearing of Beggars/Destitute off the Streets, Roads, Markets and Public Places,” was commended by a public commentator and member Management Committee Market 3 Eke Awka, Mr Onyenwe Anagor. He said that what Governor Peter Obi-ledstate government is doing to clear beggars from the streets is good because they constitute nuisance. He, however, appealed to the state government to rehabilitate the beggars and the destitute.
Principal of the Vocational/Rehabilitation Centre, Nteje, Mrs Chinyere Iguomu, said although the home has about 32 students who are challenged and about 18 destitute people, they were on holiday now.
It was, however, observed that the students of the centre were not being taken care of by the state government asthey were promised. The students, although physically/or mentally challenged, still fend for themselves.
If the raid remains consistent and the team equally visits Onitsha and Nnewi aswell as other emerging cities in Anambra, much more could be achieved in urban renewal by the Obi-led administration.
http://orientnewspaper.com/meet-beggars-registered-by-corporate-affairs-commission-as-women-affairs-ministry-heals-blind-deaf-in-anambra/


Thank you for posting that grin grin grin grin grin


But I can assure you that our Igbo brothers will turn a blind eye to it grin grin grin grin


Haba 200 beggars in one day?? grin grin grin grin

And the world did not end? grin grin grin grin


72 reunited with their family and Igbos equate that to genocide grin grin grin

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Re: Deportation Of Igbos From Lagos: Senator Ngige Speaks by EnigmAries(m): 11:29am On Aug 04, 2013
django1:

lagos is the only city in nigeria stop deluding yourself. enugu is not better than ilorin, just because enugu is the best thing in the south east doesnt make it to be par with lagos state.
Even Ilorin is far better than any city in the South East.

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