We have to give people hope for a better life. We have to give them an alternative to begging on the streets. In my opinion, arresting them would have been an unpractical solution for various reasons. For starters, if you are genuinely begging because you have no food to eat, no amount of criminal charges will deter you from doing it again once you are released. It’s basic survival instinct. People should be given viable options before such extreme measures are taken. The change is a welcome one – a step in the right direction. But do not think for… Read more »

The way to go should be identifying the real impoverished people in our villages, train them there and give them a start up business capital so that they can run small scale businesses. The beggars in the street will be forced by themselves to go back to their respective villages to do the same business. Don’t ever try to give the street beggars money whilst they are in town because you will attract many to come and it will be difficult for you to remove them because they will keep on coming to receive. Take my advice pleaser