Members of the Network for the Advancement of People with Visible Disability (APWVD), have called on the State Government to fish out killers of a a middle-aged man, Efe Ogbeide, and make them pay for their crime.
They made the call during a protest in Benin City, Edo State.
The victim who was a deaf and dumb, was gruesomely murdered by yet-to-be-identified gunmen, at a construction in Obazagbon community, in Oredo Local Government Area of the State.
He was supervising a building project when he met his untimely death.
The Executive Director of APWVD, Melody Omasah, who led the protesters, lamented the frequency of communal clashes over land and leadership crisis, which he said has led to the destruction of loss of lives and properties.
He disclosed that the victim was a deaf and could not hear when the alarm was raised about the invaders.
According to him, “Others ran away, but because he [the deceased] could not hear, he fell in the hands of his murderers.
“We are pained. We are touched because Mrs. Betty has lost a very dear husband. His children have been made fatherless.
“Ogbeide’s crime was that he went around to fend for himself and his family in spite of his disability so that he will not to be a liability to society.
“It was in the quest of struggling to put food on the table of his family that death met him absolutely.”
“Security agents must rise to the occasion. When there are crisis in community, the physically challenged suffer more. People with disabilities are worse hit,” he added.
Reacting to the development, the State Police Command spokesman, CSP Moses Yamu, said three suspects have been arrested over the mayhem in Obazagbon community, adding that investigation is still ongoing.
