Lagos to repatriate 226 beggars arrested in statewide raid

Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources in Lagos State, Tokunbo Wahab, has disclosed that the 226 beggars arrested during a statewide enforcement exercise on Thursday will be repatriated to their various states of origin.
The individuals were apprehended by operatives of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Task Force in collaboration with the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps during a coordinated operation carried out across different parts of the state.
In a statement issued after the exercise, Wahab explained that the operation formed part of the state government’s ongoing environmental clean-up and enforcement campaign aimed at enhancing public safe...