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A section of city residents have discovered a captivating scam after they exposed an imposter pretending to be a beggar to deceive unsuspecting passersby into offering her money. Begging woman who faked blindness and lameness to get money from passersby. What happened in the video? The deceptive woman, who sat by her wheelchair, had a tale of blindness and lameness. However, the doubters in the crowd challenged her narrative, compelling her to rise from the wheelchair and walk, defying her purported disability. The unfolding spectacle drew a growing audience, and the determined group orchestrating the unmasking guided the beggar through a series of revealing steps. Adding an intriguing twist, the beggar, who had pretended to be blind, was prompted to open her eyes, laying bare the intricacies of her deception. In a comical turn of events, the beggar’s first display of open eyes elicited laughter from the onlookers, who found it hard to believe the strange business the woman had been running. Who sent her to beg? Questioned about who drove her to the scene, the ‘blind woman’ was hesitant to answer. The crowd displayed their disappointment in the revelation, calling upon her return to her alleged country of origin, Tanzania. Woman pretending to be beggar nabbed Meanwhile, in May 2023, a crackdown in Malindi to uncover street beggars led to the revelation of a woman who was fleecing Kenyans their hard-earned money as she pretended to be physically challenged. The woman had a young child on her back and, with a cup, was always in her wheelchair, making money from unsuspecting citizens. “I actually saw a child and demanded that he tells me the truth. I told the child that I was a police officer and they should thus tell me the truth. This is when the child revealed that they pose as a disabled person. She mentioned this woman too and that they are seven in total who do this kind of work,” a local said.
by Nancy Odindo