A cleaner at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, Josephine Agwu, whose story went viral after she returned $28,000 and other foreign currencies totalling about N12 million to the airport authority has lamented being neglected despite her honest act.

Agwu was in the news in 2015 when she reportedly found N12 million inside the airport toilet and returned it to the airport authority.

She was praised and received cash gifts as well as salary increment for the commendable act. Subsequently, she also found N10 million, N8 million, and N7 million forgotten by travelers at the airport, and each time, she returned the suitcase containing the money to the authorities.

In a recent interview with Legit TV, Agwu complained about the level of poverty in Nigeria and pointed out that in other countries, she would have been better rewarded for her honest acts.

“As you see me, I’m a person people know the whole world today. But see. Nobody in Nigeria do what I did.

“I return money four times in Nigeria. I’m a cleaner, the year 2014 in Murtala Muhammed, return 12 million, return 10 million, return 8 million, return 7 million.

“But if na other countries, I’ll be an ambassador to telling youths that honest is paying. But now see. They close it. Nobody to remember it.”

 

See the video:

“I’ve returned money 3 times. I’m a cleaner working at MMIA. I’ve returned N12m, N10m, N8m, N7m. In other countries, I will have been an ambassador talking to the youths about the importance of honesty. But today, nobody remembers me.”

Full vid —-> https://t.co/1uXMcKj01f pic.twitter.com/9iOfT8mqPe

— Legit.ng (@legitngnews) March 4, 2019