Court sentences 30 beggars to Kirikiri prison for begging alms

Begging alms on the street of Lagos state is illegal and an offence under the criminal law of the State and  the punishment for being poor is a jail term.

As part of the ongoing measure to rid lagos of environmental nuisance,  the Special Offences
Magistrate Court sitting in Alausa, Ikeja, Monday,  sentenced 30 beggars to Kirikiri and Badagry
Prisons for soliciting for alms in violation of the state environmental law.

Attorney general of Lagos State, Ade Ipaya, read some of the charges against the beggars to include conducting themselves as disorderly persons without visible means of livelihood and thus committed an offence.

Is sending them to prison the solution and what is going on in Nigeria? I don't think there is any help in place for people like this, if there is they would not be begging for alms