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Two security operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos have been rewarded with N250,000 each for returning a passenger’s bag.
Famzn News gathered that the bag contained dollars and other valuables and was found on the August 18 at the airport.
The two security men Achi Daniel and Francis Emepueaku of are of Halogen Securities Ltd and were rewarded on Thursday.
“Inside the bag, we saw a mobile phone, jewelry and huge amount of money in dollars and several other documents,” Daniel said.
“At that point, I went straight to the manager’s office who now put a call through to somebody in Atlanta, Georgia, and the person happened to be the daughter of the owner of the bag.
“If the money was in multi-millions of foreign currencies, I would still have returned it.
“I saw the bag on a trolley at the car park, and I said to myself that somebody must have forgotten it there.
“It was not padlocked and without opening it, I went to the ground floor with the bag to meet my supervisor,” Daniel told newsmen.
He added that “When they returned (passengers involved), they were jittery that some of the items in the bag might have vanished.
“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 had only done our job.
“It never crossed my mind to steal the money; I wouldn’t have done that because it was not my first time of finding such and returning to the owners.
“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.”