Fake blind beggars arrested at Imo varsity

Following the arrest, source noted that, intelligence information were given to the police by some students of the institution, that the two young men begging for alms on campus were not blind as they claimed.

The undergraduate said the cops, who arrested the fake blind persons at the institution’s main gate, were deployed to curb exploitative activities of student cultists on the campus during the ongoing second semester examinations.

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.

UCJ, UNILORIN.