Pensioner dies awaiting entitlements – Vanguard
November 20, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
A man believed to be a pensioner, yesterday collapsed and died at the gate of Abia State Sub-treasury. Unconfirmed reports said the man collapsed and died at the gate of the Sub-treasury at about 8.30am.
The State Sub-treasury on daily basis, host scores of pensioners, who come for the backlog of their pensions. It is believed the man who collapsed and died was one of them.
The corpse was at the Sub-treasury gate for some time before some police men and men of the civil defence corps in company of an official of the Ministry of Finance removed the body and took it to the Federal Medical Centre morgue.
An eye witness said that when a search was conducted on the corpse, an eye glass and the sum of N15 was found on him.
