Nigerians have not stopped groaning over the hardship occasioned by the naira crunch.
This also includes beggars along the popular Kano Road, Kaduna Central Market as most of them, and some elderly foreign nationals with their children who used to ply the popular Ahmadu Bello Way, begging for alms, have disappeared since the new currency issues began.
Although in 2021/2022, the Kaduna State Government built a permanent abode for beggars and took them off the streets, many complained of being hidden from the public, who may want to give them gifts.
As a result, they left the apartments for Kano road, Ahmadu Bello Way, Makarfi Plaza and some notable places.
Aftermath of the Naira redesign policy of the Federal Government, reveals that several beggars, including some Nigeriens, are no longer seen asking for alms as usual.
One of the beggars, Mallam Nasir Idris, who spoke to newsmen in Kaduna said that unlike in the past, when he realised over N3,000 daily, now all the customers are asking for an account number he does not have.
He said that most customers who assisted him in the past, cry of scarcity of money and those who gave him N200 before, ended up asking him for account number, which he does not have.
Another beggar, Isah Jibril, at Taiwo road who relocated to the permanent abode built for them by the Kaduna state government, told newsmen that for two weeks, he had not made N200.
According to him, some good Samaritans bring food for them in the morning or evening.
He decried the difficulty they are facing and prayed to God to help relieve the hardship experienced across the country.
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