This Nigerian man has threatened to commit suicide on Valentine's day

This 57-year old man, Denis Amayo, threatened to commit suicide on Valentine’s Day (14 February) if his state Governor, Adams Oshiomhole fails to pay his eight-month pension arrears. Mr Amayo addressed journalists in Benin and stated said he served the state meritoriously for 35 years in Agriculture ministry and retired August 2013. The documents he presented proved that he was hired by 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. I lost my father, otherwise, I will commit suicide.”