This archive report was first published on 22 July 2019.
On July 22, 2019, a remarkable act of honesty was reported in Nigeria, where a Nigerian Air Force serviceman, Bashir Umar, returned a lost parcel containing 37,000 Euros to its owner in Kano, Nigeria.
According to the Nigerian Air Force, Umar was on routine patrol with his colleagues at the 'Hajj Camp Market' in Kano when he found the parcel containing the lost money.
Instead of keeping it, Umar found a telephone number on the parcel which turned out to be the contact for the money's owner, Alhaji Ahmad.
Umar reportedly returned the foreign cash to Alhaji Ahmad, who had lost the money.
The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has directed the Chief of Administration at the headquarters NAF, Air Vice Marshal Kingsley Lar, to immediately come up with modalities to reward the Airman for his honesty.
This is not the first time honest staff have returned forgotten valuables at Nigeria's airports, with similar incidents reported in Lagos last August and September.
