NAF To Reward Airman Who Returned Lost 37 Euros To Its Owner In Kano

By Wale Abyden//Patriotism is a lucrative venture. This may be the case with the Nigerian Air force, NAF, Aircraftman (ACM) Bashir Umar who recently found and returned the sum of 37,000 Euros to Alhaji Ahmad, the owner of the lost money.

The incident occured at the Hajj Camp Market in Kano on Tuesday 16 July 2019, when ACM Bashir, who is a member of the NAF Mobile Air Defence Team (MADT) deployed for airport security duties, while on routine patrol with some of his colleagues, found the money in a parcel. Fortunately, there was a phone number on the parcel which the Airman called, and eventually handed over the package to the owner.

In a statement by Ibikunle Daramola, an Air Commodore and Director of Public Relations and Information of the Nigerian Air Force, “the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has directed the Chief of Administration at the Headquarters NAF, Air Marshal Kingsley Lar, to immediately come up with modalities to reward the airman so as to encourage other personnel of the Service to continue to embody attitudes and behaviours that reflect NAF’s core values of Integrity, Excellence and Service Delivery”.