Anambra state Governor, Peter Obi, has indeed fired a strongly worded letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, describing the relocation of destitute people from his state as “illegal, unconstitutional, and a blatant violation of the human rights” of the “deportees”.

But checks by PREMIUM TIMES indicate that the Anambra state government had in the past
arrested beggars on the streets of Awka and
swiftly repatriated them to their home states of
Ebonyi and Akwa Ibom.

Below are two reports of the arrests and
“deportation” as captured by two Nigerian
newspapers at the time.



Anambra Orders Arrest Of Child Beggars
Leadership, December 4, 2011.
DAVID-CHYDDY ELEKE
The Anambra state government has issued a
warning to all street beggars, especially
children used by their parents to beg for
alms, to vacate the streets or be arrested.
29 of such women who displayed their
children as strategy for getting alms have
already been arrested in Awka and Onitsha,
and repatriated to their home states; Ebonyi
and Akwa Ibom states.
The state commissioner for Women Affairs
and Social Development, Dr. Ego Cordelia
Uzoezie, disclosed Friday in Awka when a
middle-aged woman was arrested for begging
with nine children at various points in Awka.
Uzoezie said her attention was drawn to the
spectacle when one of the children who
begged at the Unizik junction, Awka, six-year-
old Goodnews Sunday, was hit in the jaw by
an Okada rider, while he begged.
Uzoezie decried the attitude of some parents
who used their children to beg for alms, and
warned that after 72 hours any beggar seen
in the state would be arrested by the law
enforcement agents and the special task
force of the ministry of women affairs and
social development.






Anambra Govt Orders The Arrest Of Beggars
With Children, 29 Arrested So Far.
CHAMPION, DEC 4, 2011
By Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, Awka
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In its determined efforts to rid the state
environment of beggars daily increasing in
their numbers, the Anambra state
government has issued an ultimatum to all
the street beggars especially those using
children to beg in Anambra state to vacate
the streets or face arrest within 72 hours.
Meanwhile over 29 beggars with children
have been arrested in Awka and Onitsha ,
warned and repatriated back to their various
states of origin mostly Ebonyi and Akwa
Ibom states to mention but a few.
Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social
Development , Dr Ego Cordelia Uzoezie
disclosed Friday in Awka when a middle
aged woman was arrested begging with 9
children at various points in Awka.
The attention of Dr Uzoezie was drawn to the
beggar with children when one of the kids
begging at Unizik junction Awka , 6 years old
Goodnews Sunday was hit while begging by
an Okada operator injuring her jaw.
She was later taken to Beacon Hospital Awka
after two hospitals turned her down when
good Samaritans rushed her to hospital for
first aid. Reasons for her rejection are yet to
be ascertained as at press time.

The accident victim Goodnews said she
came from Akwa-Ibom Oron in Akwa-Ibom
state and is staying with her mother at Isu-
Aniocha but her twelve years old Sister ,


The other woman with 5 children, Mrs
Nwakaego Eze from Amafor Uli, in Ihiala
local government of Anambra state married
to Arochukwu in Abia state blamed her
begging now on week days to the dislocation
of her husband and others from the Army
barracks Onitsha as their begging before now
was only on weekends.


She further said they are now going to
Anointed Nursery/Primary School Awada
Obosi. She promised not to use the children
for begging again, if allowed to walk home


But the President General of Akwa-Ibom
Central Union, Anambra state , Sir Chris
Ekanem appealed that those who brought them to
Anambra only to subject them to begging
should be punished adding that they had
reported to the police the incident. He
revealed that the children told him in their
dialect that they were many in the state from
the same Akwa Ibom doing the same
business of begging in Anambra state. [/b]

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So akwa ibom and ebonyi are now in the north? I love the disappointment encountered by those who dig up the past against obi

premium times and beef ehn... remain northerners own premium times....

Oh! Akwa Ibom and Ebonyi are Northern states okwia?

My own concern is how was Ebonyi brought into the equation when everyone piece of information here indicates the beggars were from Akwa Ibom