President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to be honest in whatever they do.
Honesty, according to him, remained the best policy.
“We must exhibit such behaviour in whatever position we find ourselves, whether high or low,” he said.
The president made the call while praising some security men at the Murtala Muhammed Airport who returned some valuables lost by an American returnee.
In a statement issued by his media aide, Mr. Femi Adesina, the president said the security men could have gone away with the valuables but chose to be honest.
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“The security men could have chosen to behave differently, following the self-serving principle of ‘if you can’t beat them, join them.’ But they have chosen to be examples of good, honest Nigerians. I commend their conduct to the rest of the country,” the president said.
He said Nigeria would no longer be a byword for corruption and plundering of public resources.
He stated that the path the country had chosen to take would eventually get to a new shore.
A Lagos-based medical doctor, Banji Oyegbami, had met a family returning from America at the airport on August 18, 2018.
In the process of loading their luggage into the car of their host, the handbag of the returnee’s wife fell, unknown to anyone.
It was not till 90 minutes later that an officer of Halogen Securities, on duty at the airport, called the couple, to come for the retrieved bag.
When the bag was eventually collected, the contents, including a handsome amount of American dollars, phone, wrist watch, and other valuables were intact.
The grateful couple offered a generous gift, but Messrs Francis Emepueaku and Achi Daniel, declined, saying they were merely doing their duties.
