People with special needs and disabilities have been asked to stop begging on the streets of Borno State.<\/p>\n
Abubakar Mohammed Kalwa Kalwa, chairman of the Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities in Maiduguri, said people looked down on beggars and made them feel worthless.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cBegging is like training. Some people start begging in their childhood, sometmes for reasons beyond their control.\u201d<\/p>\n
But, he said, begging on the streets took away their dignity.<\/p>\n
Some parents used their cripple children to beg for money. Some children were even given fake medical certificates to get money from passers-by, he said.<\/p>\n
Kalwa, who is also disabled, said that if \u201cAllah gives you a child who is crippled\u201d, it should be the families who should take responsibility and look after the child.<\/p>\n
He said if the family did not \u201cjoin hands\u201d to raise the child, he would be forced to beg in the streets. Such families were not taking responsibility.<\/p>\n
He said even some of the parents who were educated and could read and write had allowed their children to beg on the streets.<\/p>\n
Kalwa said such parents should be helping their children to achieve their dreams.<\/p>\n
He said it was not easy for the government to feed all people with disabilities in Borno State because there were many of them.<\/p>\n
Kalwa urged the government to help beggars to become entrepreneurs, which would take them off the streets and give them back their dignity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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