Nigerian man returns purse containing ATM with 200m and gold necklace worth 1.8m
The man here is my Facebook friend...here is what he wrote
"I was at Ikeja shopping mall two days ago on duty where
I recovered a missing purse at the parking lot. The purse
contained; some cash both local and foreign currencies,
recharge cards worth about N2000, nine ATM cards,
complementary cards, valuable documents, international
passport, international and local drivers license,
national ID card, voters card and a gold necklace.
I took the missing purse to the security office where all
lost but found items are being kept for the owners to
claim should in case the owners lodge a formal
complaint that their items at the mall went missing for
possibly claim after identification.
At the security office where we went through all the
items inside the purse for record purpose, one of the
security men told me point blank that if he's the one
that recovered the missing purse, he'd remove the
money, gold necklace and recharge card before bringing
the purse to the office for record purpose. I wasn't
disappointed with his misguided speech because that's
the normal character of most Nigerians when they
recover a missing item.
Somehow, I decide to trace the owner of the purse via
her complimentary card and put a call across to her.
Open receiving the call, she screamed at the background
jubilating that her missing purse has been recovered.
She drove straight to the mall, tracing me through my
mobile number I used in calling her.
When we met, she didn't mind we were in public, she
gave me a warm hug and thanked me and prayed for me.
I took her to the office where the purse was kept. She
checked her purse and discovered that nothing was
missing. She was astonished. She asked me again if I
was the one that saw the item and I said yes.
She told me that she was already in the bank filling
forms to block her ATM cards. She said in those ATM
cards, she have over N200m in there and the necklace in
the purse is valued at N1.8m. She also said, I just
removed a heavy burden from her neck because life
would have been miserable for her missing her
international passport, international and local drivers
licence including other documents. She kept thanking
me and almost knelling down. She was awed and she
told me that she least expected a Police officer to
recover a missing item containing cash and still return
that missing item intact without removing a dime out of
it mostly in this harsh economy. She kept staring at me
like am a God.
To cut the long story short, she gave me some cash
which I rejected. I told her am doing my job and taking
money from her for recovering her missing purse is
wrong on my part. I also made her to understand that we
can become friends and maybe in the future she can
appreciate my nice gesture to her but I won't take
anything from her for doing my job at the moment.
She became speechless and asked me which church am
i attending? I smiled and told her "am irreligious. In fact,
am a freethinker" that's the exact words I told her.
She stood their for minutes without knowing the next
word to say.
Anyway, we are now friends and she just introduced me
to her husband this morning on phone. Her husband
was so excited and has invited me and my family to join
them on a dinner in any of my off days.
Is good to do the right thing not because of any reward
that comes with it but because its the right thing to do.
NOTE: IF ANY OF YOU ARE IN DOUBT OF THIS STORY,
THE ADDRESS WHERE THIS INCIDENCE TOOK PLACE IS
IKEJA SHOPPING MALL ALAUSA LAGOS. GO THERE AND
INVESTIGATE RIGHT FROM THE ENTRANCE GATE AND
THE SECURITY STAND.