The Executive Director, Network for the Advancement of People with Visible Disability (NAPVID), Barr. Melody Omosah, has lamented the killing of Persons With Disabilities (PWD) Efe Ogbeide in the leadership crisis rocking Obazagbon community in Edo State.

The Obazagbon community is enmeshed in a violent leadership crisis, leading to the destruction of property and loss of lives.

Omosah, who spoke with newsmen in Benin during a peaceful protest over the killing, decried the gruesome murder of the physically challenged Efe Ogbeide, who lost his life in the community fracas.

He said the victim has a hearing impairment and was said to have been gruesomely murdered at a building project site by invading gunmen.

Omosah added that the victim, being a challenged person following his hearing impairment, could not hear when the alarm of the invaders was raised.

While noting that the frequency of community clashes over land issues was becoming too many, Omosah appealed to security agencies to live up to their responsibility and tackle it.

“While others ran away, but because he could not hear, he fell in the hands of his murderers,” he said.

“We are pained. We are touched because Mrs. Betty, the wife of the victim, 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 would not be a liability to society.

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“It was in the quest of struggling to put food on the table of his family that death met him absolutely.

“The frequency of communal clashes over land and its related issues is becoming one too many. It has to stop. Security agents must rise to the occasion.

“When there are crises in community, the physically challenged suffer more. People with disabilities are worse hit.”

Earlier, the Convener of Talakawa Parliament, Kola Edokpayi, also condemned the killing and demanded justice for the victim, calling on the government to ensure that the culprits are brought to book.

Responding to the protesters, the Edo State police spokesman, CSP Moses Yamu, said three suspects have been arrested over the mayhem in the Obazagbon community, adding that an investigation was ongoing.