Task Force Raids Beggars Hideout In Abuja, Recover Dangerous Weapons

The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) and the Ministerial Task on Environment have raided a hideout of suspected beggars and scavengers in Wuse Zone 4, Abuja where dangerous weapons including knives, daggers and cutlasses were seized.
The AEPB Director, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Omolola Olanipekun, who made this disclosure today, Tuesday, said that a combined team of the AEPB and the Task Team on Environment who, were on routine operation carried out the raid.
Mrs. Olanipekun disclosed that all those arrested during the clearing operation have been handed over to the Police for investigation and further action.
The Director restated that begging and scavenging in the Federal Capital City remain prohibited and warned that defaulters will be prosecuted as usual, at the Sanitation Mobile Court.
She said that there have been cases of stolen manhole covers and the scavengers have been the prime suspects of suc crime, which necessitated the FCT Administration to ban their activities in the city.
Mrs. Olanipekun emphasized that the AEPB, the Ministerial Task Team and other security Agencies in the Federal Capital Territory will soon commence full enforcement and prosecution.
The Director called on the residents of the FCT to give useful information to the authorities and security agencies to ensure that miscreants and criminal minded persons are exposed and dislodged from the city.
She assured that the AEPB would not relent in its effort to ensure that the FCT Environment remains clean and protected for the benefit of the entire residents of the Territory. [myad]