‘I’ll Commit Suicide, If Ayade Fails To Pay My Late Father’s Gratuity’

A 26-year-old man, Mr Joseph Odey, has threatend to com-mit suicide if Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State fails to pay his father’s gratuity owed the family since the demise of his dad.
The late pensioner’s son in a one man protest at the governor’s office at Essien town along Leopard Road, stated that their inability to access their late father’s entitlement has brought pain on the family.
According to him, one of his siblings who has dropped out from school is almost going depressed.
In a brief interaction with media men in Calabar, shortly after the protest, he said his late father, Mr Anthony Odey, died just three years to his retirement after meritoriously serving the state for 32 years.
While noting that his late father was a principal of Government Secondary School, Ebo, Yala LGA of Cross River State before death, the son said, “I am at the Governor’s office today to bring attention to the non-payment of my late father’s benefits and gratuity after he had put in 32 years of faithful service to the state and died as a school principal a few months before he was due for retirement.

Friday Nwagbara, Calabar