THE Kano State Hisbah Corps has arrested 931 street beggars in the last two weeks, the commander-general of the corps, Sheikh Harun Muhammad Sani Ibn Sina, has said.
Ibn Sina, on Friday while parading the arrested beggars before newsmen at the corps’ headquarters in Sharada, Kano, stated that one of the street dwellers, an old woman, was found with a large sum of money.
According to him, 320 of the arrested beggars are males and 611 are females and while three of them tested positive to HIV/AIDS, a large number of the underage females are pregnant.
He said that most of the beggars were arrested on major roads, under bridges, in markets, railway stations and other strategic locations within the metropolitan and local government areas.
He said out of those arrested, 536 females and 279 males had been reunited with their families and the rest were still in custody.