‘Fake beggars’: Lagos Police nab four for ‘injecting minors to make their stomachs swell’

Those who have taken to begging with minors on roads in the country are getting more sophisticated on how to hoodwink unsuspecting members of the public as four men with fake beggars were apprehended by Lagos Police Command.

Benjamin Hundeyin, spokesperson of the Lagos police command, says the four men have been apprehended for allegedly parading minors as beggars.

In a post on Twitter on Saturday, Hundeyin said the men got the minors from villages and brought them to Lagos to seek alms.

According to the police spokesman, a medical doctor allegedly provided injections which were given to the children to make their stomachs swell.

“These men get minors from villages, get a medical doctor to allegedly inject them with substances that make their stomach swell outrageously, and parade them in road traffic as critically sick, to get alms from motorists,” he said.