During a popular Hausa radio show, Nigeria's Minister of State for Education, Aishatu Jibrin Dukku, shared the highly depressing news, saying,
"We are yet to finish our compilation, but at the moment we have over ten million child beggars roaming our streets, and that's a conservative estimate."
She continued,
Read the full article"It is very alarming that parents are becoming so insensitive to the welfare of their children that they dispatch them to unknown places to take care of themselves...
"They just send them away without making any arrangement for their feeding, medical care, shelter and other necessities... Most of these children, because of the harsh realities they found themselves in, end up becoming juvenile delinquents and, subsequently, adult criminals."
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