Senate orders urgent evacuation of prostitutes, beggars, hawkers from Abuja
By Oak TV
27 February 2017 |
4:30 am
The Senate on Thursday said that it has mandated the FCT Police Commissioner and Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to flush out beggars, hoodlums and commercial sex workers, etc from the streets of the FCT.
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1 Comments
Just heard Dino Melaye’s speech about clearing the streets of Abuja of destitutes and miscreants.
He also misinformed himself and others about wanting Abuja to be as grand as other capitals of the world like Washington, D.C.
I live in New York and visit Washington, D.C. intermittently and there homeless people hanging around the parks that are a few blocks away from the white house.
No executive order was given to evacuate
the streets of Washington.
Abuja belongs to the beggars, miscreants and sex workers just as it belongs to the so called ‘back door law makers.
Dino Melaye is so wrong and UnGodly.
Manny Ajebon
New York City
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