A watchman simplified identified as Tunde with Osun State Government slumped and died of hunger at the state secretariat Osogbo on Thursday.

Hallmark Newspaper gathered that Tunde died because he lacked money to buy food, following the inability of the state government to pay workers salary for seven months.

Tunde who was attached to the Auditor-general’s Office was on night duty when he collapsed and died  at his duty post.
This is coming a day after  a middle-aged man died owing to lack of money to purchase drugs.  However, Tunde’s body had been evacuated and since been deposited at the state hospital mortuary.

Speaking on the development, the Secretary of the Trade Union Congress in Osun State, Mrs. Tola Nosegbe, urged well-meaning Nigerians to join Christian Association of Nigeria and churches   in giving aids to workers in the state to save them from untimely death.
Mrs. Nosegbe maintained that government had not been transparent in its approach to the non-payment of workers salaries, saying government should explain how it spent its allocation from January this year to date.

Workers and pensioners in Osun State have not been paid  in the past seven months. Reacting to the incident, the state Governor, Rauf Aregbesola described the present financial situation of state as disheartening and painful while promising to pay the salary as soon as the state gets allocation from Federal Government.