The Kano State Government in its effort to ensure street begging were off the roads in the state, had arrested and repatriated over 1,500 Almajiris back to their states and countries of origin, following recent banning of street begging in the state.

This was just as the organisation said Katsina has the highest numbers of the repatriated almajiris while Jigawa State has the least.

Disclosing this while speaking with pressmen, the image-maker of the Hisbah, (the state’s moral police) Lawan Fagge, said on Friday that those arrested were repatriated to their states which includes: Katsina, Zamfara, Kebbi, Borno and Yobe States.

According to him, among the arrested almajiris, about 70 percent are children from the ages of seven and twelve

He further disclosed that are from Kano, Adamawa and neighboring countries of Chad and Niger Republic, noting that following the ban, some parents voluntarily withdrew their children from the streets.

He, however, revealed that there are also old aged women who see begging as a business, as even when their families provided all their needed necessities, they insisted on going out to beg. (Sunday Tribune)