Is Lagos drowning in a child beggar pandemic?

Guardian Nigeria

Is Lagos drowning in a child beggar pandemic? Witness the stark reality of children on the streets, a growing crisis impacting Nigeria's megacity.   This video dives deep into the complex issue of child begging in Lagos, exploring the contributing factors and the urgent need for action. We examine the debate surrounding birth control in Nigeria and how religious beliefs clash with population control measures.   Discover how many of these children are not even from Lagos but are brought in and left to multiply, creating a cycle of poverty and crime that destabilizes the nation. The Lagos state government faces an uphill battle due to legal limitations on restricting movement into the state.   While children are a gift, the current situation transforms them into instruments of desperation and terror. This is a critical look at a social issue with far-reaching consequences, prompting the question: who will champion a solution?   #ChildBegging #LagosCrisis #NigeriaSocialIssues

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00:00Have you walked on Lagos streets and you see a factory rushing to you, holding you, and say,

00:07auntie, brother, that is the case in Lagos states of Nigeria.

00:14And that also brings us to the issue of birth control.

00:20While a section of the country believes that there should be birth control,

00:25others believe that their religion does not support birth control.

00:29You can give birth as many as possible without putting into consideration what becomes of those children.

00:37Unfortunately, these children grew from being beggars to those terrorizing the country at large.

00:46So many of the women you see with children begging on the street are actually not originally birthed in Lagos.

00:54Many of them came into Lagos with children and started multiplying without having any concrete plan for them.

01:03The Lagos state government is also handicapped because there is such, you know,

01:08legal ground to stop anybody from coming to the states.

01:12Children are gifts from God.

01:15But now they have returned to choose to beg.

01:18oppressive language.

01:21Theanse of theabelagujongong

01:21The Embodilwag

01:21defense mean that it is something that you treat, your identity, your identity and your identity, your identity, your identity,

01:21your identity, and your identity.

01:22The name of the law is long-to-day example.

01:22We know what your identity how does일 a meal mimic and young and young, your identity.

01:22We have removed that here, by the way.

01:22We have changed astrology and what the latest technologies give you to be.

01:22And we have changed this Hier postsies, and we have finished history and then we get them to the village.

01:22You

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