by Adeola Balogun

A man in Edo has threatened to end his own life on February 14, which is the very popular Valentine’s day.

57-year-old Dennis Amayo is said to have made the threat due to the non-payment of his pension arrears.

Mr. Amayo has said that if his allowances, which have been owed him for 8 months, were not paid, he would commit suicide.

Nigerian Eye reports:

Amayo who addressed journalists in Benin this morning, said he served the state meritoriously for 35 years in the Ministry of Agriculture and retired in August last year.

A document he tendered showed that he joined the then Bendel State Ministry of Agriculture on July 7, 1978 and retired as a field overseer last year.

He said the death of his father whose corpse is in the mortuary, necessitated his demand for the payment of his pension arrears.

“I am my father’s first born. It will be immoral of me to task my younger ones to bring money for his burial while I cannot bring anything for the burial,” he stated.

In his hand-written petition to Governor Oshiomhole, the Igbanke-born father of four said the state was owing him “eight months pension arrears,” adding “please sir, pay me before February 14, 2014.

He warned that should the governor failed to pay him, he will sacrifice his life to raise awareness for other pensioners owed several months of unpaid pensions