A woman, Ngozi Dike, has been arrested by operatives of the Anambra State Police Command for claiming to be blind and using two teenagers to beg.
This was revealed in a statement by the spokesman of the Anambra State Police Command, SP Haruna Mohammed, on Sunday.
Mohammed said Dike, 37, was arrested on Saturday by Police Detectives attached to Ogbunike Division at Oye Olisa Market, Ogbunike in Oyi Local Government Area.
Dike is said to be from Umuaka Town, Isu-Njaba LGA of Imo State.
He said the suspect pretended to be afflicted with blindness and was using two teenage girls: Blessing Ezenwanne (f), who is eight years old and from Ugwuta Town, and Favour Ezeagu (f), aged 11 and from Nwari, Ohaji-Egbema of Imo State, to beg for alms.
Mohammed said preliminary investigation revealed that the Suspect is neither blind nor afflicted with any ailment as she claimed and that she deceived the parents of the teenage girls that she wanted to train them in school, but instead used them for begging in the market.
He said the case is under investigation, after which suspect would be charged to court for prosecution.
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