Air Force Officer Got Promoted Promoted For Returning £37,000

The Chief of Air Staff, Sadique Abubakar, on Thursday in Abuja decorated an air force personnel, Bashir Umar, who returned 37,000 euros he found at Hajj Camp Market in Kano to the owner with a new rank of corporal.

The chief of air staff had on Sunday directed the Chief of Administration at the NAF headquarters, Air Marshal Kingsley Lar, to immediately come up with modalities to reward the airman.

Mr Abubakar, an air marshal, said the reward would 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.”

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is set to reward one of its personnel, Aircraftman (ACM) Bashir Umar, who 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,” a statement by NAF spokesman, Ibikunle Daramola, said.