Kano Keke rider receives varsity scholarship for returning missing N15m to owner
A Kano-born tricycle rider has received university scholarship for returning the sum of N15m to the owner.
In September 2023, 22-year-old tricycle rider, Salisu, returned N15m that was forgotten by a passenger who came from Chad to buy goods in Kano.
Salisu, a resident of Yankaba in Nasarawa Local Government Area of the state, returned the money after hearing an announcement about the missing money on a radio station in Kano.
Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi and his running mate, Baba-Ahmed Datti, announced scholarship for Auwalu Salisu at the ongoing LEADERSHIP awards and Conference in Abuja on Tuesday.
Obi, who was flanked by the proprietor of the university and his running mate, Ahmed Datti, said Salisu’s feeding, schooling, accommodation and others would be handled by Baze University until he graduated.
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Salisu became the talk of the town after he found N15m, including some CFA currency, and returned it to the owner who is from the Republic of Chad.
In his remarks after receiving the award as politician of the year, Obi said there was an urgency to invest in Northern Nigeria.
He said: “The North has no reason to be poor in Nigeria. We make more money from agriculture than oil. Imagine Ukraine is giving Nigeria grain, a country that is in war. We have land and everything more than them. But they are giving us grain because 60 per cent of their land is cultivated and 60 per cent of ours is uncultivated.
“The two biggest states in the North-East: Borno and Taraba have 70,000 and 55,000 square kilometers which is four times the size of Belgium, but Belgium is exporting what we don’t even export a quarter of.”
He said the only solution to Nigeria’s economic crisis was to create jobs and business environment for the youths, adding that if young people are out of poverty, crime will be less in the country.
