Unbelievable! See Two Women Who Rented Little Babies for N1,500 and Used Them to Beg in Lagos (Photo)

Two heartless women have been arrested by the
police after they rented two babies and used the
kids to beg for money in Lagos.

The police in Lagos, yesterday arrested two
women who allegedly 'rented' babies for 1,500 and
used them for begging. The women were arrested
yesterday in Oyingbo, Lagos.

According to The Nation, three babies who are less
than one month old were recovered from them.

Hadiza Nosiru and Salamotu Salitu were arrested
by the monitoring team of Lagos State Ministry of
Youth and Social Development for renting the
babies which is a crime under the law.

They have been taken to the Rehabilitation and
Training Centre at Majidun, new Ikorodu.

Preliminary investigation showed that the women
were not the biological mothers of the babies. The
babies the ministry said, were given out to the
women by their parents, who are paid daily.

One of the babies mothers, who was paraded at
the state secretariat on Alausa, Ikeja, yesterday
gave her name as Tawa Aregbesola from Ibadan,
the Oyo State Capital. She said she had an
agreement with one of the suspects to take her
baby for alms begging between 5pm and 7pm
daily for between N1000 and N1500.

Aregbesola, a mother of four, said she did not
know where her baby is usually taken to adding
that she was oblivious of the consequences.

Youth and Social Development Commissioner Mrs
Uzamat Akinbile-Yussuf said efforts would be
intensified to stop street begging.

She expressed displeasure at the use of babies for
begging, exposing them to hazards on the streets.
Mrs Akinbile-Yussuf urged the public to help the
government in eradicating the menace.

The commissioner noted that the practice was
prevalent among female beggars especially from
the north. She promised to take legal steps to
deter others who may also wasn’t to indulge in the
proactive.