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Embu town residents want foreign beggars removed from town streets

A man with physical disabilities begs on a busy street in Embu town recently. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard]

Embu town residents have raised concern over the rising number of foreign beggars ‘planted’ in the streets of the town to beg.

The beggars said to be from Tanzania and are exhibiting various disabilities are accompanied by able people who take all the money collected, according to security enforcers and community leaders.

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