Showing posts with label beggars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beggars. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Lagos Armed Robber invent new tactics of Disguise as Beggars



A member of a gang of kidnappers arrested by Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos State Police Command, on Tuesday, said they used different tricks, including posing as beggars, to distract their potential victims to facilitate their kidnapping for ransom...

The kidnapper, Emeka Agbaji, was nabbed with Emmanuel Omoseni and Michael Edom after abducting two friends, Samsudeen Olatunde and Daramola Bisoye, along Lekki-Epe Expressway, in Ajah.

Emeka Agbaji, a 31-year-old man, said the first step in their modus operandi was to get their potential victim to relax. According to him, the element of surprise always worked in their favour.


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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Court orders 11 beggars to pay N1,000 fine each




ILORIN — An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court, yesterday, imposed a N1,000 fine on each of the  11 beggars arraigned before it for  street begging.
The beggars were convicted on a one-count charge of street begging which the prosecution said contravened Section 4 of  the Kwara State Law, 2006.
According to the charge sheet, the convicts were arrested while wandering and begging for alms on an Ilorin street.
The accused persons pleaded guilty to the charge against them.

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