According Punch Newspaper The Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences in Ikeja paraded a 29-year-old woman for faking pregnancy.
The woman
was arrested under the Ikeja Bridge where she had been using her “heavy
pregnancy” to deceive and solicit alms from residents. She was paraded
with a pillow, which she hid under her dress to fakea protruded belly,
to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.
Speaking on her arrest, Mr Bayo Sulaiman, Chairman of the Task Force,
said the woman was arrested following a tip-off from members of the
public about her suspicious activities. Sulaiman explained that the
suspect confessed to the dishonest business after the arrest and even
displayed to officials how she faked the pregnancy to appeal to people’s
sympathy and defraud them.
“The case of
this woman is one of the many cases of many dishonest people across the
metropolis that operate under different guises to solicit alms and
defraud members of the public,” he said.
The task force chairman said the suspect would be arraigned in court to face the consequence of her fraudulent way of life.
He advised
members of the public to be wary of people who approached them for
assistance, saying some of them might be fraudsters.
Sulaiman
said street begging had serious security and environmental consequences
and the state government would not in any way condone the practice.
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