A Benin-based socio-cultural group, Edo People Front, has called on Edo State government to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of a Benin-based local artist in the employ of Edo State Board of Art and Culture.

Speaking in Benin City after a meeting of the group, its president, Mr. Osahon Asowata, said Edo people were particularly sad that the artist, Mr. Brown Aitiemwen, had to die the way he did.

The group expressed concern that some money was approved for the deceased while he was in the hospital, adding that by the extant rules of the civil service, approval for money not been budgeted for in the annual budget estimate for the Ministry, could not be made.

It also noted that there was a due process to be followed in the civil service for government to come to the aid of any sick civil servant in the state.