FAAN rewards 2 honest security guards who returned bag with dollars
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when they returned passengers involved they were jittery that some of the items in the bag might have vanished1 two honest security guards at the murtala muhammed international airport mmia ikeja who had earned the commendations of president muhammadu buhari and many nigerians were on thursday rewarded with n250000 each.1 the news agency of nigeria nan reports that daniel was with his colleague emepueaku when he found the bag on aug.18 at the airport1 daniel said inside the bag we saw a mobile phone jewellery and huge amount of money in dollars and several other documents1 at that point i went straight to the managers office who now put a call through to somebody in atlanta georgia and the person happened to be daughter of the owner of the bag1 if the money was in multi-millions of foreign currencies i would still have returned it1 i saw the bag on a trolley at the car park and i said to myself that somebody must have forgotten it there1 it was not padlocked and without opening it i went to the ground floor with the bag to meet my supervisor daniel told newsmen at the event1 the security guard said that it was not his first time of returning money in foreign currencies to their rightful owners1 the guards mr achi daniel and mr francis emepueaku of halogen securities had returned a bag full of dollars and jewellery which belonged to a nigerian who returned from america1 but after crosschecking it she owner discovered that everything was intact and the family attempted to give us some amount of money as a form of appreciation which we rejected telling them that we were doing our job1 it never crossed my mind to steal the money i wouldnt have done that because it was not my first time of finding such and returning to the owners1 no amount of money would make me to take what does not belong to me. i believe my own time will come and at the right time daniel said1 also mr saleh dunoma the managing director federal airports authority of nigeria faan said that several other related cases had been recorded at the nations airports1 dunoma who was represented at the event by mr salisu daura the faan director of engineering services said that the duos act gave confidence and credibility to the agencys security profiling system1 he said that the duo would forever be remembered in the annals of the industry as role models reference points shining lights and good ambassadors1 some others may look at you and tag you stupid but i want to assure you that by virtue of this act you have secured seats for yourselves in the comity of those with credibility and integrity1 i want to advice other members of staff to emulate this great virtue and become role models just like these two security guards he said1