NewsNigeriaAirport Employee Return $10,000 Found While Cleaning Aircraft

Auwalu Ahmed Dankade, an employee of a handling company at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano has returned $10,000 he found while cleaning an aircraft.

The money, equivalent of approximately N15m, was found on Wednesday afternoon in an Egyptian aircraft, and Dankade immediately reported the discovery to his company manager, leading to the identification and return of the money to its owner.

According to Dankade, he returned the money as his motivation to please Allah.

“I have been trained not to take what does not belong to me. Anything you take unlawfully, you will be held accountable for in the hereafter.

“My parents taught us to be content with whatever we have, and this upbringing made it easy for me to return the money,” Dankade said.

It was gathered that for his honesty, Dankade would be invited to Lagos by his employers today Friday, possibly to receive a reward for exemplary conduct.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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