Begging within Lagos State has heightened and it appears that the act has been turned into a trade which entails different tactics/marketing strategies to deceive people. A male drug addict who deceives people with fake pregnancy has been exposed.
A Twitter user who caught the man disclosed that he sees the exposed drug addict selling purewater and begging people for money. He added that he met her packing clothes in her stomach to look like a real pregnant woman.
The tweet read;
Yesterday I came across her while she was packing clothes in her stomach to look like a real pregnant woman. I see her in town selling pure water & begging money from people, I later discover that she is a drug addict, her fake pregnancy is her joker to raise money from people