Nigerian Air Force Rewards Officer Who Returned Missing €37,000

Bashir Umar, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) personnel who returned a missing €37,000 to its owner, will now be rewarded by the air branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces. 

In a statement released on Sunday, spokesperson for NAF, Ibikunle Daramola, revealed that its personnel found a parcel containing the lost money at the Hajj Camp Market in Kano on Tuesday and returned it to its owner after calling the number on it. 

The statement read in parts  “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.”