A beggar on the streets of Abuja, Hadizs Ibrahim has been arrested after the sums of N500000 and $100 cash were found on her.
Punch reports that residents in the area were quite shocked at the huge amount of cash found with the beggar.
The spokesperson for the Federal Capital Territory Administration, Social and Development Secretariat, Shaka Sunday, confirming the incident, said that the suspect was in the custody of the agency at the Bwari area council.
Sunday stated that the beggar has not been able to explain how she came about the huge stash.
According to him, “We caught the woman with $100 and N500,000.
“The lady is still in our centre in Bwari. She is undergoing profiling because she has not been able to give us all the relevant information and how she came about the money.”