By Favour Ajibade
The saying that beggars have no choice no longer holds across the world. Reason being that they are choosey now, as they are carefully taking their time to select from the arrays of gifts, which they are being offered by people around them by people around them.
Recently, there was a mild drama at the popular Kano-road, Kaduna, when some group of beggars rejected old 1,000 naira notes gifted them by a good Samaritan.
Reason for rejecting the old naira notes, News Mirror gathered, was in connection with the January 31st deadline for the submission of old naira notes by Nigerians.
Our correspondent who witnessed the drama narrated that a young was accosted by three beggars on wheelchairs as he alighted from a bus, realising they were asking for handouts, the man took an N1000 note from his wallet and stretched it towards the most senior beggar among the three.
However, in a rather hilarious reaction, the beggars looked at themselves, swiveled their wheelchairs around, and moved away from the young man, rejecting his offer.
Speaking to onlookers, the young man who identified himself as Caleb, said “they (beggars), came to me, asking for alms. I gave them what I had on me but they rejected it.”
The young man explained that he only had the old currency notes and have not been able to get the new ones despite his efforts.
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