A level 7 accountant attached to the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) in Lokoja, Mrs. Husseina Mohammed has returned the sum N1, 780,500 paid in excess of her March salary to the coffers of the Kogi State government.
Mrs. Husseina Mohammed, who was surprised by package delivered to her account, was cautious, even with the knowledge that her spouse, also a civil servant, was cleared in screening exercise, but still waiting for the payment of his 16 month salary arrears.
She had received an alert on her cell phone, indicating that her account had been credited with almost N1.8 million as her monthly salary, which is approximately N34,000. The message read: “Salary for the month of March, 2017.”
Husseina read the message severally and on getting home, narrated her excitement to her husband who consequently called for a brief family meeting to consider the implication.
After the decision to refund the money was taken at the family meeting, Mrs. Husseina Mohammed quickly rushed to the Director General in the Bureau of Information and Grassroots Mobilization, Alhaji Abdulkareem Abdulamlik to narrate how she got the huge amount in her account.
She then handed over the bank teller and other documents used in paying back the money to Abdulamlik, pleading however to the government to reciprocate her good gesture by paying her husband’s outstanding 15 month salary arrears.
Abdulkareem Abdulamlik commended the woman for her honesty, saying with people like her in society, Nigeria was sure of winning the ongoing war against corruption.
He asked other civil servants and residents of the state to emulate her, adding that her good conduct would not go unrewarded and would be recorded for generation yet unborn to learn and emulate.
Source: The Guardian. [myad]
