Hadiza was apprehended at a junction along Ademola Adetokunbo Crescent in Wuse II, Abuja, and preliminary security profiling indicated that she was not involved in such nefarious activities, according to the FCT Administration.

This news came amid conflicting emotions following Hadiza’s contentious detention by authorities from the Social Development Secretariat (SDS) a few days earlier.

Briefing journalists on the issue on Thursday, the acting Director, Social Welfare Services of the SDS, Malam Sani Amar, said as part of its profiling, the Police personnel attached to its enforcement team, were given time to play their role, and it was established that she is not into such nefarious acts.

“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 activities.

“And if you look at the money found in possession, it was accumulated over time. And the profiling we did on her, and we gave the Police in our team, time to play their role, and they did what they can, and it was established that she is 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,” he said.

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

He added that from their assessment within a decade that they have been apprehending the notorious beggar, she seems to be socially deformed not mentally, even as he described her as an “economical saboteur’’.

The FCTA official, however, appealed to the public to stop giving alms to beggars on the streets and junctions, as it was what was encouraging them, thereby causing environmental nuisances in the nation’s capital city.

“You can imagine somebody dishing out one hundred dollars as alms to a beggar, not knowing that such person has more than that amount with him or her. Won’t the beggar return to the same location?

“We have established colonies and settlements of real people who are in dire need of such support either cash or kind. So, I want to solicit that anybody who wishes to give such alms or support, should please carry out such to such people in dire need or you can go directly and give them.

“Civil servants, private business operators and what have you, if you have to give alms or assistance of any kind, look around you, there are people in dire need of help, reach out to them, you will be blessed,” he stressed.

The beggar, in response to questions from journalists who witnessed the money being returned to her, stated that before she started street begging more than a decade ago, she worked in the clothing industry, which she left due to an increasing rate of bad debt.

She explained how she was able to save such large money by saving N2,000.00 daily contribution.