Mr Emmanuel Obodoezie, a tricycle operator in Ariaria International Market, Aba, Abia on Wednesday returned N2.04 million to a trader who forgot it in his tricycle after alighting.

Obodoezie was celebrated by Ariaria traders for remaining upright in the face of Nigeria’s economic hardships.

The tricycle operator told the News Agency of Nigeria NAN) that he picked a woman along Powerline Road and she alighted somewhere around Free Zone area where fish is sold.

Obodoezie said that he told the woman that her fare was N300 but the woman gave him only N250 and he collected it from her without complaining while she left.

He said that he did not look at the back of his Keke after the woman alighted and went away and so did not know that the woman left her bag in his tricycle.

“Because of the bad roads, my machine was bending to one side and to another side until the bag at the back of my machine fell of.

“Then people who saw it fall began to call me to wait that my bag in my machine had fallen off.

“I stopped and thought it must be the the bag of the woman who I dropped off some minutes ago,” he said.

He said that before I stopped, the person who picked it opened it and seeing it was money, wanted to take some from it but I refused to allow him and others to take the money.

He said that he told one of them to hold the money while he would go and bring the owner.

“I went in search of her and God being so kind, she was already coming to search for the tricycle operator who conveyed her and her goods to the market.




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