~Bluetooth:

Look at reasonable people talking here.I'm tired of all these third class graduates on nairaland.Although,i'm not surprise,some went to nite school.

I know of a state guv'nor who smokes weed to the office, if I mention his name now im state persons dem go react!!!

Lagos State has functioning programs for beggars, the destitute, the mentally impaired, and persons with physical disabilities. Two of such centres are:

1) Rehabilitation & Training Center, Owutu, Ikorodu
2) Vocational Training Centre for the Disabled, Owutu

Both have a total of about 600 persons. A drop in the ocean, yes, but a firm step in the right direction. There're several other programs for the rather less-privileged in Lagos State:

Remand Home Boys at Yaba
Remand Home for Girls at Idi Araba, mushin
Children Transit Home, Idi Araba
Girls Approved Home, Idi Araba
Juvenile Welfare Centre, Alakara, Mushin
Remand Home at Isheri Lagos
Remand Home at Isheri Lagos
Rehabilitation & Training Center, Owutu, Ikorodu
Drug Rehabilitation Centre, Adeniji Adele, Lagos Island
Society for the safety of Insane & Destitute, Ajegunle/Apapa

The Lagos State government also nominally assists:

Organization of Deaf Businesswomen,
Pacelli School for the Blind,
Little Saint Orphanage,
Wesley School for the Blind and
Friends of the Disables
Spinal Cord Injuries Association of Nigeria (SCIAN)

Well you are on your own

~Bluetooth:

Can an igbo or hausa man be a lagosian because he lives in lagos?.How many yoruba from the south western state have claimed to be an igbo or haus.Go and look for your origin mr singular

Did I say they are Yoruba? Hausas and Igbos who live in Lagos are Lagosians.
Besides, arguments with you are to be avoided. They are often vulgar and unconvincing.

You are welcome!

Bluetooth you seem to be one displaying the 3rd class brain here.

nethacker:

well said.u just said my mind. If he had said micreants and thugs,i will agree.but beggars on dat streets of NY  [size=21pt]lailai  [/size]

Seriously?

Hey guys put your money where your mouth is, Baba Pupa has giving us a good list of locations where you can donate to uplift the poor and less privileged in lagos state,

Fashola do this, Government do this, what have you done yourself.

It is the season of giving why don't you all reach out to these guys,

it would have been better to send them for rehabilitation instaed of deporting or "evacuating" them.

Oduduwa people deported them only because those Beggars are poor,
Nigerians still don't know how Wicked Yorubas are.

Any citizen of Nigeria should have the right to live wherever or whichever part of Nigeria such Nigerian citizen chooses and prefers.Such choice should be left to such Nigerian citizen regardless of wealth, health, ethnicity, state or region of origin or religion. Once a Nigerian has established proof of his citizenship, where he chooses to live should not be a discussable transaction by any branches of our government, be it local, state or federal.
so what Fashola did was an illegal act. It is an unconstitutional act, as it is equally immoral,

gidson12:

Any citizen of Nigeria should have the right to live wherever or whichever part of Nigeria such Nigerian citizen chooses and prefers.Such choice should be left to such Nigerian citizen regardless of wealth, health, ethnicity, state or region of origin or religion. Once a Nigerian has established proof of his citizenship, where he chooses to live should not be a discussable transaction by any branches of our government, be it local, state or federal.
so what Fashola did was an illegal act. It is an unconstitutional act, as it is equally immoral,

Question- Though you are not a Yankee citizen, what do you think the authorities there would do if you went over there to beg for a living?

oge4real:

it would have been better to send them for rehabilitation instaed of deporting or "evacuating" them.

Rehabilitate them? Oge, if you were take a census of 9ja beggars, don't you know the highest percentage would come from a certain part of the country? You sure have a hell of a job on your hands to rehabilitate them seeing smashing this cultural and religious mindset is humongous work.

ochukoccna:

Question- Though you are not a Yankee citizen, what do you think the authorities there would do if you went over there to beg for a living?

   dumbassss niggaa, only countries have the right to deport anyone that is not a citizen for actions in contravention of their laws. not states like in Nigeria.

;Damn just so jealous to all this Fashola work in Lagos states,it really impressing me,please can someone atleast bring some other good news from the South south or any part of the country,Expecially where am from, Warri!!!

Any good news?

Kay 17:

   dumbassss niggaa, only countries have the right to deport anyone that is not a citizen for actions in contravention of their laws. not states like in Nigeria.

i don't recall inviting you to the conversation. Yet since you have chosen to show you are a genetic mental retard, go argue your dumbness in the Supreme court on why northerners kill southerners with impunity yet their governors conveniently are blinded to the fact that this northerners, surprise surprise, are killing fellow citizens for ?contravening? their religious laws which by their own estimation supersede the country's laws.

oge4real:

it would have been better to send them for rehabilitation instaed of deporting or "evacuating" them.

How many times do we have to repeat and furnish the same information to lay this to rest. The state built a rehab center in ikorodu to rehabilitate beggars, the fact is, these are professional beggars and they don't want to be rehabilitated.

Officials of the state Ministry of Youth, Sports and Social Development, assisted by mobile policemen, last week raided some parts of the state and arrested destitute, beggars and others for rehabilitation at Owutu, Ikorodu. The officials were divided into three teams. One of the teams operated around Ikeja and Maryland. Another team moved to Victoria Island, Lekki and Ajah.

But the beggars are not taking things easy with their captors. Recently, some officials of the state government taking a truckload of the destitute to the Ikorodu rehabilitation centre were attacked by suspected lunatics at Ojota when their vehicle had a flat tire.

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:4VAkuBdsoeIJ:thenewsng.com/across-nigeria/lagosraiding-beggars-and-lunatics/2008/09+rehabilitation+center+ikorodu+beggars&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Sure would love to see this American beggar beg in 9ja. 1st thing to go would be his trainers

Even in America, many states banned street begging and relocate beggars everyday,

Agreed,"deporting"them is wrong in context-they being nigerians.awever,im pretty aware,that there is a cartel that ships most of them from their homes in the north to come n beg here in the south especially lagos n they pay commission to these guys.
i believe it is the proper n humane thing to do if these people r returned to their families on the grounds that they r being exploited.further more unearthing the groups responsible for these human trafficking n bringing them to justice would be a more complete.

WilyWily:

Oduduwa people deported them only because those Beggars are poor,
Nigerians still don't know how Wicked Yorubas are.

WilyWily, I hope you don't hope bashing the Yoruba without a reason will make you a champion of the Igbo or whatever ethnic group you claim. Don't cheapen yourself, brother. True Igbo sons and daughters are not cheap. This is a serious topic that does not need this low-road diversion.

Well if the country provided good jobs for people we wouldnt have beggers on the street so where are these beggers supposed to go? Removing them from the street will not solve the problem.

JProspero:

WilyWily, I hope you don't hope bashing the Yoruba without a reason will make you a champion of the Igbo or whatever ethnic group you claim. Don't cheapen yourself, brother. True Igbo sons and daughters are not cheap. This is a serious topic that does not need this low-road diversion.

JProspero,
Look man, these Beggars are your fellow Nigeria, why deporting them?. is this one Nigeria.
I like to see them back soon in Lagos, they has the right to live anywhere of their choice in this country.

ochukoccna:

i don't recall inviting you to the conversation. Yet since you have chosen to show you are a genetic mental retard, go argue your dumbness in the Supreme court on why northerners kill southerners with impunity yet their governors conveniently are blinded to the fact that this northerners, surprise surprise, are killing fellow citizens for ?contravening? their religious laws which by their own estimation supersede the country's laws.

this is not your father's website can't you keep out those primitive tribalism, if they committed any crime there is a legal procedure to follow, not witch-hunting.

the poverty mentality rate of Africa is due to our inability to accept responsibilities,
JESUS real is the cure to poverty

waste of public funds