Airport Cleaner gets N7,200 salary increment for returning N12m (New salary now at 15,000)

Josephine Ugwu

Josephine Ugwu, the airport cleaner who returned a passenger’s luggage containing local and foreign currencies to the tune of N12m has been rewarded with a N7,200 salary increment.

Ugwu, who works for Patovilki Cleaning Services, a concessionaire engaged by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria to keep the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos clean, was on a monthly salary of N7,800 before the incident.

The National Diploma graduate of Our Saviour Institute of Science, Agriculture and Technology, Enugu, now enjoys a N7,200 salary increment, bringing her new salary to N15,000.

Ugwu said she had no regrets for what she did, but would not mind being compensated.

She said, “I believe that a good name is better than riches. This incident has taken my name far and wide and I am happy that it is for a good cause. God’s reward is the ultimate, but if the government will give me a proper job as promised, I will be happy.

“My company on its part has tried and I am grateful for the management’s action. My salary has been increased and I have also been promoted.”

Mrs. Eunice Anumudu, Ugwu’s supervisor at the airport, praised her integrity and uprightness, saying that Ugwu had become a role model, not only for her colleagues, but for all Nigerians.

“What she did is worthy of emulation. Many people in her shoes would have done otherwise. She is a role model to her colleagues and to all Nigerians. I will be happy if the government can do something to encourage her,” she said.

 

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14 Responses to “Airport Cleaner gets N7,200 salary increment for returning N12m (New salary now at 15,000)”

  1. Unknown's avatar

    I believe the Reward in this context is an Insult to encourage Honesty & Kindness outside Religious testament.
    They should upgrade her statutes,because that money would had done that. She gave up that opportunity. So act right. Afterall some individual earns that close a month.

  2. Unknown's avatar

    Nice one, it is better to have little bread with peace of mind than to have all d good things of live but minus peace or be in conflict with ur conscience, d lord will soon visit u with material gifts.

  3. Unknown's avatar

    Rubbish

  4. Unknown's avatar

    God forbid bad tin 4 sit down chop dat money

  5. Unknown's avatar

    God Forbid bad thing…. This is absolute nonsense and stupidity

  6. Unknown's avatar

    Encourage her with a better job and good salary

  7. Unknown's avatar
    Nnadozie Chukwuemezuo Reply March 18, 2015 at 11:11

    My prayer to you is: may the good Lord reward you more abundantly…Amen

  8. Unknown's avatar

    To be honest, I don’t know how I would have behaved, that one na big temptation now!!!!

  9. Unknown's avatar

    Chai!!! She’s an image of God…. Thank you dear for showing the world that Nigeria has another kind of people… 😍

  10. Unknown's avatar

    Imagine dis nonsense

  11. Unknown's avatar

    This is rubbish real non sense

  12. Unknown's avatar

    See how people survive in this country, and she may be married with children

  13. Unknown's avatar

    Is 7k increament equate wat she did?mad people instead of dem to giv her a good job

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