A Keke NAPEP driver in Kano, Auwalu Salisu, has returned N12 million forgotten in its tricycle to the owner.
The money was left by the passengers on Thursday but was returned to the owner on Saturday.
He returned the money, which was in CFA and Naira denominations (CFA10.130 million and N2.938million) after hearing an announcement on Arewa Radio 93.1 Kano.
He was given a reward of N400,000 by the owners who appreciated his honesty.
Speaking to Arewa Radio in a video posted by the Radio Station on its Facebook page on Saturday, Salisu said he returned the money because it did not belong to him.
He said, although the money was huge, it would not add anything to his life if he didn’t return to the owner because Allah would not bless anything he did with the money since it belonged to somebody who sweated to get it.
Narrating how the thing happened, he said, “I took them from Badawa to a place near Yankaba. I didn’t realize that they had forgotten the money. I saw a bag containing the money at the back. I touched it, and I realized that it contained bundles of money.
“When I opened it and saw the money, I quickly went home and showed it to my mother, who then instructed me to show it to my father. He then called his brother, and we went back to look for the owners, but we didn’t see them.
“I went into the building close to where they disembarked. I looked everywhere, but I didn’t see them. So, I went back and told my father and my uncle that I haven’t seen them.
“So, we went back home and kept the money in safe and waited to hear any announcement about people who left their money in a Keke NAPEP.
“I later heard an announcement on Arewa Radio, I took the phone number provided and called in the morning. I called about five times, and the call was not answered. I later called the second number provided, and they picked it up.
“They asked me about where to meet me, I said I would come to Arewa Radio, but they said I they would meet me at my place in Badawa. But I insisted that we should meet at the Radio Station and they agreed. We went there at 10:am”.
On his part, a friend of the owner, Musa Hassan who appreciated the Keke Drivers honesty commended him for being a Good fearing young man who despite being poor sees it right to return the money untouched to the owner.
Hassan, who spoke amid intermittent cry, said it was very hard to find an honest boy like Auwalu whose parents were poor to return a huge amount of money, especially at this time of hardship.
He said that they were told by the father of the boy that, the family took Gari even the day before while waiting to hear about the owner of the money they were keeping at home
The owner, who was a Chadian and cannot speak Hausa, was seen crying as his friend spoke in the video.
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