Why I Announced Ban On Street Begging In Edo – Gov. Obaseki

Why I Announced Ban On Street Begging In Edo - Gov. Obaseki
Governor Godwin Obaseki
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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has confirmed that his administration was set to commence the evacuation of street beggars who are not ready to accept decent and meaningful ventures.

Obaseki gave this confirmation while addressing the Muslim faithful who were on a courtesy visit to the Government House, Benin City, on Monday.

He warned that anyone, whose children were not in school but on the street begging or trading, would be arrested and consequently prosecuted.

Obaseki pointed that that in the next few weeks or months, street begging would become history in the State.

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He explained that his administration believes that basic education was the right for every child in the state.

‘There are lots of farm settlements and more hands are needed to cultivate the lands,’ he noted.

The governor said that anybody arrested for street begging would be evacuated to the farm settlement to work.

He noted that if the beggars did not want to work, they would be sent back to where they came from.

On inadequate teachers, he said that his administration had employed 3,062 teachers in rural communities to enhance educational system in the state.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that earlier, the Chief Imam of Benin Central Mosque, Alhaji Abdulfatai Enabulele, commended the governor for his administration’s developmental stride.

Enabulele called on Obaseki to urgently take some drastic steps to check the menace of street begging and trading.

He added that the act was capable of disturbing the peace of the state.

In a related development, Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has opened up on why he has not signed the anti-open grazing bill into law like some of his colleagues in other States.

Speaking at a stakeholders’ Town-Hall meeting in Benin recently on the proposed Anti-open Grazing Law, Obaseki explained that it will not make sense to pass the law without devising a means of implementing it.

Africa Daily News, New York

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