Gender Based Violence: Edo First Lady Assures Physically Challenged Victim of Justice.

Gender Based Violence: Edo First Lady Assures Physically Challenged Victim of Justice.

The First Lady of Edo State Her Excellency Betsy Obaseki has decried the alleged inhuman treatment meted on a physically challenged man, Mr Lucky Osarenkhoe by his family over the sale of a land belonging to his sister.

Her Excellency Betsy Obaseki who visited the visually impaired Lucky Osarenkhoe at the Oredo Primary Health Centre in Benin City yesterday, assured the victim that his family members who locked him inside the family house without food for seven days will be made to face the full wrath of the law.

The Edo First Lady who was accompanied on the visit by the Commissioner for Youth and Gender Mr Andrew Ewanta Esq. said when she heard about the issue, she insisted that he be rescued immediately adding that the case is now between the State Government and the family of Mr Lucky.

Earlier, the visually impaired man, Mr Lucky Osarenkhoe who narrated his ordeal to Her Excellency Betsy Obaseki said his problem began when he refused to connive with his family members to sell a house belonging to his sister in the diaspora.

He said he has been threatened and beaten repeatedly by his family members before they left him to die, locked up in the family house alone.

The Edo State Gender Based Violence Management Committee mobilised a team to rescue the visually impaired man on Monday following a report by a member of the committee.

Mr Lucky is currently recuperating under the care of the committee.