The minister, Muhammad Musa Bello, who made the announcement when he paid an unscheduled visit to the Vocational and Rehabilitation Centre at Kuchiko, in Bwari Area Council, Abuja, said that before they are deported, a database would be created for all them.
The Minister said that the establishment of the database would avail the Administration adequate information on those arrested, even as he directed the Social Development Secretariat to ensure that all those arrested are captured in the database for easy reference.
He also instructed the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) and the FCT Task Team on Environment to assemble all the beggars and destitute arrested and be taken to the Vocational and Rehabilitation Centre where the Social Development staff will officially receive and hand them over to the management of the Vocational and Rehabilitation Centre.
The Minister also directed the Vocational and Rehabilitation Centre to commence the process of repatriation of the beggars and destitute in earnest in line with the extant rules to their various states of origin where the social welfare officials in such states are to receive them officially.
Muhammad Bello also inspected the new borehole that was constructed for the Centre by the FCT Administration. He further directed that overhead tanks be provided and installed for immediate use by the inmates.
He asked the Social Development Secretariat to ensure that the pumped water is well reticulated and that the Secretariat should also fix all the street lighting points to illuminate the environment at nights.
The Principal of the Vocational and Rehabilitation Centre, Comrade Bala Tsoho told the Minister that 145 new beggars and destitute have just been brought into the Centre.
He said that the welfare of the inmates, including regular feeding has drastically improved. [myad]
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