The beggars
who addressed the Press in Kaduna through the leadership of Kaduna State
Beggars Association said if they knew that El Rufai would stop them from
begging and would show no care about their welfare afterwards, they would never
have voted him in the first place.
Beggars in
Kaduna state Monday said they had used proceeds from begging to help join the
movement that produced Governor El Rufai of Kaduna State and promised to bring
down his government should he insist on stopping their livelihood without providing
them any alternative.
Mallam Yahaya
Makaho, a visually challenged person who spoke on behalf the group said:
“I want to
swear on my honour that I personally used my proceeds from begging to canvass
for the support of El Rufai. I used my money to mobilise for his support both
on the streets and where I usually teach my students. And I am not alone in my
group that made that sacrifice.
“We decided
to support El Rufai, because we were tired of the then Governor, (Mukhtar
Ramalan Yero) who did not show any regards to our survival. We worked hard,
spent money and prayed and God heard our prayers and brought down Yero.
“Now, it
would appear that we made a mistake. The new governor wants to bring us down.
He does not want us to live. He has chased us out of the streets and has made
no alternative arrangement for our survival.
“Look, some
of us here have between three and four wives and many children. How can you
lock such a man, who must resort to begging because he has found himself
incapable of doing any other thing? We are asking the governor to rescind this
decision now or find ways to meet our basic needs.
“If he
refuses to heed to this demand, we shall make sure we bring down his
government. We are not going to pray that he dies, even if he wishes us so. We
are not going to say that he should be impeached, because we voted him to
power. What we will do is to hand him over to the Almighty God, and we know he
will remove him the same way he removed the former person. We are servants of
God, and he always hear our cry”, he said.
El Rufai has
always maintained that beggars and hawkers are used by terrorists, saying he
had banned their activities in the state, not out of malice, but for public
good.
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