A Nigerian man named Freeman Godwin whom 9News Nigeria learnt works as an aide to the Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, has threatened to commit suicide over non-payment of his salary since he was appointed.
In the video posted by one Phylo Modlin Odu, the man is heard screaming and lamenting his woes to two men in an office as they tried to calm him down.
According to the University of Calabar graduate, he was doing his business when they called to give him an appointment.
Godwin claimed that he had to borrow money to do the documentation for the job yet he has not been paid, adding that his wife delivered a baby through cesarean section.
When it is time for work, they will use you and dump you, at the end of the day nothing happens. I will die for this Government.” he cried out.
Governor Ayade is one governor who portrays himself as a very human and emotional person who hates to see the people of his state live in abject poverty. Sometime last year, Governor Ayade’s weeping video went viral twice, and the video showed him weeping over the sordid condition of the poor among the Cross River citizens.
