Pretend beggars who’ve been requesting cash from members of the general public within the streets of Thika city within the pretense that they had been disabled have been warned that their days are numbered.
Thika West Deputy County Commissioner Mbogo Mathioya stated the city has over the month seen an inflow within the variety of beggars with some making a fortune out of unsuspecting passersby.
Talking when he joined officers from the Nationwide Council for Individuals with Disabilities Kenya (NPDK) in Thika city Saturday, the DCC warned that his workplace wouldn’t hesitate to take motion on such characters including that they might intensify crackdowns to take away them from the streets.
This comes as a latest crackdown on disabled individuals within the city revealed that almost all of them lived usually with some working for his or her expensive lives when given a chase by the police.
“We all know a lot of the beggars on the streets of Thika city pretending to be disabled are regular. Some revealed that they make greater than Sh300, 000 month-to-month from begging. This won’t be entertained henceforth,” warned Mbogo.
Mbogo on the identical time cautioned beneficiaries of the commerce instruments in opposition to promoting them saying they might assist empower them to earn a residing.
“There are nonetheless individuals with the audacity of promoting the instruments as soon as they obtain from the Nationwide Fund for the Disabled of Kenya (NFDK). Don’t promote these instruments. They are going to assist empower you to earn a residing,” he stated.
NFDK chairperson Prof Julia Ojiambo urged the beneficiaries to make use of the instruments for the supposed goal to raised their lives.
She stated their workplace has acquired studies that a few of them promote the objects at a throwaway worth to get fast money as an alternative of utilizing them to alter their lives.
Among the many objects donated included farming instruments, digital cameras, salon and sweetness instruments, carpentry, welding machines, tailoring stitching machines, wheelchairs, strolling sticks and crutches.
She stated the federal government has dedicated itself to making sure that PWDs stay higher lives by funding of their enterprise initiatives and the supply of mobility help gadgets.
Prof Ojiambo urged PWDs to use for a incapacity membership card, advising them to get the appliance varieties at Social Safety workplaces.
She implored the significance for disabled individuals to own incapacity identification playing cards saying one enjoys a wide range of privileges, alternatives and providers supplied by the federal government and through social gatherings.
She on the identical time expressed satisfaction that folks with incapacity have competed with the opposite Kenyans and stuffed elective workplaces apart from after they relied on nominations.
By Muoki Charles
Supply: kenyanews
