Reports say about 250 beggars in Ibadan, on Thursday, April 1, protested low patronage by members of the public following a recent rumour that they sell money received from people to ritualists.
Spokesperson for the indigent beggars; Imam Abubakar Abdullahi, Serikin Hausawa of Hausawa Community, Oja’ba, Ibadan, who spoke to newsmen,0 said the rumor had created deep hatred for his people.
He said that the reports that wealthy people are buying money from beggars, including the physically-challenged people, for money rituals, is not true, adding that as a result of the claim that some ritualists do buy money from these beggars, there has been public resentment against the innocent people.
Abdullahi explained that traders, hawkers and commercial drivers do come to the beggars who are mainly blind and lame people, to change money.
He said they needed to clear their names so that people will not be punishing them for offences they did not know anything about.
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