Woman Who Hires Babies To Beg Flees After Interrogation.

Barely two months after the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development rescued three babies and apprehended two women for using less than a month old babies to beg for alms, three babies have been rescued from a fleeing suspect.

A woman who hired three babies reportedly ran away in Lagos after a woman, who identified herself as a humanitarian, Pastor Temidire Marcy, accosted her to question her concerning the children.

Pastor Marcy told newsmen that when the woman could not provide useful and tangible information, she went to Ikeja Local Government to lodge a complaint but before she returned with officials, the woman had absconded, abandoning the children.
It is suspected that the woman had hired the babies just to use them to beg at a pedestrian bridge in the state.

It would be recalled that the state Ministry of Youth and Social had warned Nigerians to be very careful, stressing that mothers who leave their babies at schools, motherless homes should keep them in custody of nannies or individuals they believe can help take care of them until they come back from work.

The Commissioner, Mrs Uzamat Akinbile-Yussuf, had called on members of the public to join hands with the state government in eradicating the menace, stating that the state government will continue to intensify efforts to get rid of street begging in all areas of the state.

Also, the Ministry had in August apprehended one Umoru Adiza, who allegedly rented a set of twin children for the same purpose.
Adiza was nabbed while using the twin children, believed to be less than two- years-old, to beg for alms at the Costain area of the state. .

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