Gbenro Adesina
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended a Nigerian, Ikenna Nweke, a doctoral student of the University of Tsukuba, Japan for projecting values of honesty, contentment and decorum, stressing that such qualities should be emulated.
Nweke found a missing wallet with huge sums of money on June 19, 2020, and returned it to the police as well as turned down an offer of a percentage by the authorities.
According to a statement signed and released by the Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari stated, “Thank you for projecting values of honesty and decorum and making the country proud in Japan”.
The President noted that the values exhibited by Nweke should be the hallmark of a people, noting that good virtues and propriety are the hallmark of every culture in Nigeria, while crimes and criminalities are exceptions.
The President believes Nweke’s behaviour, coming at a period that the country needs a positive spotlight and close-up on its real values, clearly signposts what should hold the nation together, inspired by solid foundations laid by most families religious bodies and communities for success in life.
Buhari wishes Nweke all the best in his studies and work as a teaching assistant in same university, urging all Nigerians, home and abroad, to keep celebrating the age-old, irreplaceable attributes of honesty and decorum, and shun the microwaved, get-rich-quick tendencies that bring individual and collective shame.
