Lagos
State Ministry of Youth and Social Development Monitoring Team have
arrested about four women who were begging for alms with babies less
than a month old that weren’t their own.
The women, Hadiza Nosiru and Salamotu Salisu, both from Jigawa State were arrested at the Oyingbo area of the State.
Preliminary
investigation showed that the two women apprehended are not the
biological mothers of the babies but were given to them by their parents
who later got paid for each baby.
40-year-old Aregbesola is one
of the women arrested for using her children to beg for alms in return
for stipends. According to her , the person who hires her child always
pays her between N1,000 and N1,500 daily.
The woman claimed she
had four other children. According to her , the first two children
attend school somewhere in Ikotun area. She said: “I stay at Ijora Olopa
though I am from Ibadan in Oyo State. I work with a food vendor, who
pays me N 300 daily.
The eldest of my children is 11 years old. ”
Aregbesola,
who was the only Yoruba woman among the suspects, interpreted for
others, who spoke in Hausa and couldn’t explain why they ventured into
the illegal business. She claimed that she and other women only release
their babies around 5pm. and get them back with money by 7pm. daily.
But
when asked if it was possible for the beggars to pay her N1,500 daily
for using the baby for two hours, she kept mum. Two of the women, Hadiza
Nosiru and Salamotu Salisu, hail from Jigawa State.
Aregbeshola is now being detained in Alausa Police Station alongside other four women.
Two of the women are biological mothers of the rescued infants, while
two others were commercial beggars from northern part of the country.
The
infants were taken to the Rehabilitation and Training Centre at
Majidun, Ikorodu for shelter as the government vowed to immediately
commence investigation and possibly prosecute the women.
Source: http://ryanasuquosblog.tk/2016/07/photo-i-rent-out-my-baby-for-n1500-daily/
