A cab operator under the Airport Car Hire Association of Nigeria (ACHAN) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, Olayinka Adeniyi, has returned $2,400 (approximately N888,000), and an international passport to a passenger.
Mr Adeniyi said on Wednesday that he discovered the items in an envelope at the back seat of the car he was driving on July 29.
Adeniyi had been working at the airport for over 15 years. He said he never contemplated taking someone’s belongings because it would put sorrow in another family’s life.
He said: “At about 1:30 am on July 29, I met this passenger on arrival at the International airport.
“I negotiated with him and we agreed at N6, 000 to transport him to his destination at Ikorodu.
“I returned to the airport immediately I dropped him at his house. But no sooner than I arrived and parked my car at the airport, I discovered an envelope had been left behind on the back seat of my car. I picked the envelope and opened it.
“What I saw was his international passport. I looked further into the envelope and discovered there was another white envelope inside.
“I opened the second envelope only to discover that something was wrapped in it. It was dollars in $100 denomination. I counted and they were 24 in number.”
The cab driver said he reported the items to the officer-on-duty at the airport’s arrival car park and was instructed to drop the parcel at ACHAN’s secretariat.
The passenger, Dele Ayeni, said he was a living testimony to the advantages of taking a cab from registered points at airports.
