Nigerians from all walks of life have been commending and praising the exemplary character displayed by a trycle operator aka Keke Marwa, John for returning a purse containing money, ATM cards and other valuable items forgotten in his trycycle last week Thursday in Lagos. He went the extra mile by contacting the wife of the owner after searching his purse for links and dutifully returned the purse and its content and reject gratification offered him by the owner.
Here are the comments expressed on the Facebook page of our Editor, Tunde Abatan…
- God be with Citizen John.
Nigeria is blessed with honest people.
But let’s ask ourselves: does honesty pays in this land?
How many has that same honesty sent to where they will never have ended if not for their honest disposition?
And how many honest people get what they ought to get fairly?
But in all, thank goodness, we’re all gonna be landlord in the cemeteries by and by so, maybe in the end, honesty will have its rewards at the feet of the Lord.
But here in Nigeria, with your write up, do honest people get recognition?
And that’s what made the Citizen Johns of this world to stand out.
Remember when we were growing up, we were, at each turn, have it drummed into our skulls that honesty was the best policy and even our parents then used to inscribe it on their cars and trucks; ‘HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY’
If your friend travels out of your locality and comes back home with sudden wealth within a spell of time; you run away from him especially if no one knows his source of sudden wealth.
But today, what do you have? The dishonest ones get recognition, political powers and then make laws to mess with our lives and further milk us with reckless abandon.
Where were our virtues which made us decent men just a mere 4 decade back?
As we wallow in corruption, dishonesty and serial raping ( to borrow from you), May God send us more of citizen Johns of this clime and heal our nation.
Awon eni ti agbojule ko jeni agba. ( those we relied on to bring back the old order, to fight corruption and a whip us back in line are now worse than the former). They’re bunch of common thieves in borrowed garbs and have been exposed!
God bless you Citizen John and your likes wherever you may all be.
We need lots more of y’all. ….Kolawole olabisi…lawyer/journalist
Citizen John is a pointer to the fact that we are still going to get it right some day…..Elufowoju olanrewaju,university administrator
[8/17, 8:08 AM] Tunde Abatan: An angel in human form. God rewarded you for what you have been doing for others too. God bless citizen John…Samuel Orija
Citizen John is the kind of people newspapers ought to give award but will they do it? No, John has no money to bankroll the award.
John thank you, oshe, dalu, nagode …Charles okogene, Newdawn deputy editor
God is still at work here in Nigeria….inspite of what you called ” leadership brigandage”. Citizen John will surely reap his benefits one day in the future……Deji Adeyemi
The Almighty God will reward citizen John abundantly….
Moradeun Olorunda xy Alawode
Great guy Citizen John.
Unfortunately, our leadership class will not allow a man like him climb to the top. He may not be given the platform to lead at all.
Looking at how much a councilor will spend to obtain nomination form people lie John may not be able to.
Great guy….Bamidele Ogunwusi..journalist
God will certainly bless the young man in His own way and at His own time. You, too, Abatan, I know you to be a good man. Keep being good!….Marcel Okeke,veteran journakist,PR practitioner
Good one from citizen John. I think that you should let the public know his full name . Who knows, someone might just ‘surprise’ him….Bola Adeyemi
Thanks to the good man. It shall be well with him. Amen…Seyi Enitan Olubode
[8/17, 8:25 AM] Tunde Abatan: Great one. We should have taken his picture and make a celebrity out of him….Adebayo adekoya
waoh what a testimony..there are men like him everywhere. But they are so few….Gbenga Osinaike,publisher
