Benson Tegia

Restore our services: PLWD

Chairman of the NCD disabled person association Benson Tegia made the call after a young leader, David Miranda, who was a strong disability advocate lost his life on Monday this week from infection associated with pressure sores.

“Miranda passed away while we were still fighting to this day with people like Daniel Kapi (brother of late brother Brown Kapi)  to recoup the PNG Rehabilitation Centre at Hohola.

‘The rehab centre belongs to people with disabilities’

The rehabilitation centre at Hohola has become the subject of a legal battle between the children of the late outspoken disability leader, Brown, whose elder brother Daniel and other siblings have reportedly taken over his estate.

Tole Wia and Benson Tegia are two persons living with disability who have had access to the centre for years. They cannot now because Daniel has taken over the facility, they claim.