According to the administration, reports of its preliminary investigations showed that Hadiza has no links with drug peddlers, arms dealers, kidnap gangs, and other organized criminal syndicates.

FCTA officials disclosed that the said money was an accumulation of her N2,000 daily contribution.

Hadiza was arrested a few days ago at a junction along the Ademola Adetokunbo Crescent, in Wuse 2 District of Abuja.

Meanwhile, reports of her profiling showed that she had been severally apprehended in the past 10 years by city officials for begging in designated places.

Addressing journalists Thursday in Abuja, Acting Director, Social Welfare Services of the SDS, Malam Sani Amar, said as part of the secretariat’s profiling, the Police personnel attached to its enforcement team were given time to play their role, and it was clearly established that she was not into any nefarious act.

Amar said: “Within our little knowledge and experience in discharging our duty, with the assistance of security personnel attached to us, we understand that Hadiza was not into any criminal activity and if you look at the money found in her possession, it was accumulated overtime.

“On the profiling, we did on her, we gave the Police in our team time to play their role and they did what they could and it was clearly established that she was not into such nefarious acts.

“She was so wise to have selected the areas of her own begging business, where she realizes huge money daily”.

According to him, Hadiza, who hails from Zaria, in Kaduna State is one of the die-hard beggars who had been severally apprehended by the secretariat’s task force from the streets in highbrow areas of the territory.

The FCTA official also appealed to the public to stop giving alms to beggars on the streets, saying the action is what has encouraged the beggars to carry on, thereby causing an environmental nuisance in the nation’s capital city.

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