{"id":3816,"date":"2022-01-20T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:49:31","slug":"kwara-government-bans-street-begging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/kwara-government-bans-street-begging\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwara Government Bans Street Begging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Kwara State government has prohibited the practice of street begging in the state capital, Ilorin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abosede Aremu, the commissioner for Social Development, revealed this in Ilorin on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"430\" title=\"kwara government bans street begging\" src=\"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/KWARA-MOU.jpg\" alt=\"kwara government bans street begging\" class=\"wp-image-3820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/KWARA-MOU.jpg 750w, https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/KWARA-MOU-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/KWARA-MOU-733x420.jpg 733w, https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/KWARA-MOU-640x367.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/KWARA-MOU-681x390.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She said the government took the bold step in view of the nuisance that street begging poses on major roads in the capital city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The commissioner said her ministry and the Hausa community\u2019s representatives have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the banning of street begging in Ilorin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> She reminded the residents that there is a punishment and penalty for street begging which attracts a fine or imprisonment according to Kwara State Street Begging Prohibition Law 2006. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The representatives of Hausa community, Surajudeen Hussain, Rufai Sanni and Mohammed Lawal assured the state government of their cooperation in getting Ilorin streets free of beggars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kwara State government has prohibited the practice of street begging in the state capital, Ilorin. Abosede Aremu, the commissioner for Social Development, revealed this &#8230; <a title=\"Kwara Government Bans Street Begging\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/kwara-government-bans-street-begging\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kwara Government Bans Street Begging\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[21,729],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ipad","tag-kwara-state-government","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}