Thursday, 17 March 2016

THE PLIGHT OF DESTITUTE IN ENUGU STATE, NIGERIA



Enugu State being “The Coal City” of the nation is situated on a very high hill known as milking Hill in the Eastern part of Nigeria. Strangers and visitors to the state will bypass milking Hill before getting into the Urban Area of the City. The city is a platform of peaceful atmosphere which previously comprises of numerous destitute roaming the nook and cranny of the streets districts of the state in search of food and Greener pasture for daily survival.


It is an awesome experience during previous Administration that the destitute constituted nuisance in the street, begging for alms and at the same time fighting within the major expressways of different districts of the main City. As a result the Governor Sullivan Chime’s administration mad a provision for them. Now the destitute in Enugu State are sheltered and have a permanent base where they can take off in search of food for daily survival and return at the end of every daily activity to rest. These have reduced the numerous numbers destitute within metropolis, taking them away from the city to the rural Areas where life can be more comfortable and enjoying for their suitable standard of living.

The recent research and interview carried out in 2014 shows that most of the destitute roaming the street were trained from motherless baby home. Some of them on getting to maturity realize their status in the society and as a result of trying to compromise and change their identity to adapt in the environment, as well as be accepted in the society. They gets involves in all sorts of atrocities like picking pockets, cultism, Raping of Mad People, and robbing  and killing of innocent citizen in the night hours at motor park.

The Ugly experience has brought about the steps and relocation of destitute who comprises nuisance in the City to remote Area for their survival as well. Those steps the State government took have brought about changes within the metropolis. The littering of main city roads with pure water sachets and other darts of Rubbish has ceased to exist as before they were perambulating the streets and main city road. The main City road has dirty bin stands like covered plastic buckets provided by ESWAMA (Enugu State Waste Management Authority) for accommodating dirt and rubbish. The security operative has also been mandated by state government Authorities to catch and charge file for any citizen found littering the main city express road with rubbish.

NEWS REPORTER: ONYIA EMEKA HARFORD
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