President Muhammadu Buhari has praised a Nigerian doctoral student at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, Mr Ikenna Nweke, for returning a missing wallet with huge sums of money to the police and turning down the offer of a percentage from the authorities.
The President said that the Nigerian student projected the values of honesty, integrity and contentment, which he said, were the hallmark of every culture in Nigeria, with crimes and criminalities being exceptions.
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Buhari said Nweke’s behaviour clearly signposts what should hold the nation together. A statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Saturday wished Nweke all the best in his studies and work as a teaching assistant in the same university.
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He also urged all Nigerians, home and abroad, to keep celebrating the age-old, irreplaceable attributes of honesty and decorum, and shun the micro-waved, get-rich-quick tendencies that bring individual and collective shame to the people and a nation.
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