Two fake beggers arrested in Imo state
Two fake blind beggars have been arrested by policemen attached to the Imo State University, Owerri campus.
Their arrest, PUNCH reports, followed intelligence information given to the police by some students of the institution who said the two young men who had been begging for alms on the campus were not blind as they had claimed.
A student leader, Chidi Onyeji, told Southern City News that the fake blind men were apprehended by the police at the main gate of the varsity.
He said:
According to Onyeji, luck ran out on the suspects when one of the policemen called one of the beggars, and on approaching, the cop slapped him and asked him to open his eyes.
He explained that upon interrogation, the two fake blind persons confessed to the crime, saying they took to the crime to make ends meet because they were unemployed.
The suspects have been transferred to the state Police Command in Owerri, where they were being interrogated
Source:information ng
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