A Taxi driver, Mr. Damilare Adesiyan is currently receiving accolades, especially on social media, after he returned a bag containing N170,000, laptops and valuable documents left in his taxi in Ibadan.
Adesiyan, despite the fact that he is a struggling taxi driver with no food at home and no money to feed, traced the owner of the bag, with the help of the police, and returned everything intact.
Speaking to The Cable lifestyle, Adesiyan narrated how the whole incident played out.
“I am a taxi driver and a passenger boarded my cab at Mokola roundabout, he was going to Iwo road and dropped his bag in the booth of the car. He forgot the bag when he was alighting; I tried to look for him but I could not find him.
“I parked in a corner and searched the bag because I was scared that the bag could contain incriminating things. I found a laptop, money and phones in the bag. Then I took the bag to the nearest police station which happened to be Mokola police station.“On getting there, I did not tell the police that I had searched the bag before coming. Then we contacted the owner of the bag and he came to the police station to pick the bag.
“Before I left the house that day, I had no money with me and I had to collect fuel on credit at the fuel station to work.
“I could not even give my wife money to eat for that day and we have two children. Although I can’t really afford it, my children are in school; the first is in Primary two and the second is in Nursery two.”
“I returned it because I knew that the bag was not mine and keeping it might cause trouble for me. On returning the bag, the owner of the bag gave me 5,000 naira.
“I didn’t tell anyone that I found money apart from my wife but I have been receiving calls because the owner of the bag told me that he posted it on Facebook.
“I only told one of the road transport union workers and he told me that I should have told him that I shouldn’t have returned the bag and I told him that I had no use for it that it might have caused more trouble for me.”
