Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has showered encomium on a Nigerian doctorate student in the University of Tsukuba, Japan, Ikenna Nweke, who returned a missing wallet with huge sums of money to the Japanese police, and also turned down an offer of a percentage by the authorities.
In a statement by his special adviser on media and publicity Femi Adesina, the President saluted Nweke for projecting the values of honesty, integrity and contentment, noting that good virtues and propriety are the hallmark of every culture in Nigeria, while crimes and criminalities are exceptions.
The President believes Nweke’s behaviour, coming at a period that the country needs a positive spotlight and close-up on its real values, clearly signposts what should hold the nation together, inspired by solid foundations laid by most families, religious bodies and communities for success in life.
President Buhari wishes Nweke all the best in his studies and work as a teaching assistant in the same university, urging all Nigerians, home and abroad, to keep celebrating the age-old, irreplaceable attributes of honesty and decorum, and shun the microwaved, get-rich-quick tendencies that bring individual and collective shame.
Editor :Tunde Orebiyi
