Nigerian President, Buhari presents Integrity award to former airport cleaner, custom officer who rejected huge bribe
London, Nov. 19, 2019 (AltAfrica)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday honoured a former cleaner at Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, Ms. Josephine Ugwu, who on several occasions, found and returned millions of naira, forgotten in the toilet by airport users.
The president presented the award to Ugwu in Abuja.
Speaking at the event, Buhari said that Ugwu has shown an uncommon sense of honesty in a society fast losing its moral conscience.
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Buhari in a tweet on through his official Twitter handle (@MBuhari) said
“On more than one occasion, Mrs Josephine Ugwu, a former cleaner at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, found and returned millions of naira forgotten in the toilet by airport users. Today it was my privilege to present her with an ICPC Integrity Award.”
On more than one occasion, Mrs Josephine Ugwu, a former cleaner at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, found and returned millions of naira forgotten in the toilet by airport users. Today it was my privilege to present her with an ICPC Integrity Award. pic.twitter.com/PsQT4u5Elc
— Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) November 19, 2019
Alternativeafrica.com recalls that in December 2014, Ugwu found and returned N3million she found at the airport. Also on December 27, 2014, she found and returned N600, 000.
In 2015, Ugwu, again, found N17 million and returned the money to the owner.
Also found worthy of honour was Bashir Abubakar, an Asst Comptroller-General of Customs, who rejected a bribe of $412,000 per container offered him by drug traffickers seeking to bring 40 containers of Tramadol into Nigeria. A fine example of incorruptibility,worthy of emulation. pic.twitter.com/VJ47pSy14u
— Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) November 19, 2019
Also found worthy of honour was Bashir Abubakar, an Asst Comptroller-General of Customs, who rejected a bribe of $412,000 per container offered him by drug traffickers seeking to bring 40 containers of Tramadol into Nigeria.
The president said the two awardees were fine example of incorruptible Nigerians worthy of emulation.
