No fewer than 70 beggars and the homeless were on Wednesday dumped at the Upper Iweka Bridge, Onitsha, Anambra State.
Agents of the Lagos State Government reportedly brought the destitutes to Onitsha.
The destitutes told journalists that they were dumped about 3am at
Upper Iweka after being detained in Ikorodu, Lagos, for over six months
for alleged wandering and other minor offences by the Lagos State Kick
Against Indiscipline officials.
The destitutes said they were brought to Onitsha in four buses, escorted by riot policemen.
One of them, Mr. Osondu Mbuto, from Ohaozara in Ebonyi State and a
petty trader in Lagos, said he was arrested by the Lagos State
Government officials while going to his shop on December 18, 2012.
Mbuto added that the Lagos State Government officials were in company with some policemen.
The Chairman of Nigeria Red Cross Society in the South-East, Dr.
Peter Katchy, described the action of the Lagos State officials as
condemnable.
He said, "It’s very deplorable; it’s very disheartening that a state
in the Federal Republic of Nigeria will bundle people, who are not even
indigenes of Anambra State, and dump them under the flyover at Upper
Iweka in Onitsha.
"Many of the people, we have interviewed are not indigenes of Anambra
State. Some of them are from Ebonyi State; some are from Imo State
among other states.
"It is an insult to Anambra State. We shall draw the attention of the
governor of Anambra State to ask the reason for such an invasion of his
territory.
"We will find out why Lagos State should invade Anambra State
territory; and why Lagos State should dump people here and leave them
helpless.
"We are here on humanitarian purposes and in response to an
emergency. From what we discovered here, this is a human emergency and a
human callousness."
Katchy, however, promised that the society would move the destitute
to the Anambra State Social Welfare Centre in Onitsha South Local
Government for rehabilitation.
The Lagos State Government had dumped another set of beggars at Upper Iweka late last year.
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