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HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY
Mr. David Achuduma is a man who is highly esteemed and respected by his friends
and colleagues. His well known alias “ Honesty” because he frowns at every fraudulent incident in the banks where he works. His popular slogan “it pays to be honest”. Honesty has become his second name and much of a creed than a mere aphorism to him.
He accepts this as a way of life because of the stand and the honest parents he had. According to him his parents instructed him to be honest always to all his dealings and to accept honesty as his guiding principles. As he was growing up his father usually told him to be honest and shame the devil. His determination to honest always eventually made him what he is today, a respected bank executive.
David has a little education which did not take him beyond secondary school. He couldn’t go beyond secondary school because his father died while he was in school. Despite his poor background he decided to be honest and truthful. He was however lucky to be employed in a commercial bank as a messenger. In the bank where he works, he is well known to be a man who always stands by the truth and whose avowed policy is honesty. We should not be having cases of fraudulent practices if we can all be honest” is always his spontaneous reaction whenever there a incident of fraud in the bank. He has contributed in foiling fraud attempt planned by some of his colleagues either by refusing to conspire with them to steal bank money or by alerting his bosses whenever he is a aware of any attempt to defraud the bank. This has earned him a second name “Honesty” and he is popular with it.
His honesty paid off one day. One Thursday afternoon, a gang of armed robbers stormed the bank and ordered everybody in the banking hall to lie down and face the ground. The manager of the bank was force to surrender the key of the vault where the bank’s money was kept. A lot of money was carted away as the robbers collect all the money from the cashiers and the banks vault.
As the robbers were hurrying away, they forgot to carry along with then three boxes containing millions of naira which they have collected oujt of the bank vault and kept at the back of the bank. Two days after the robbery, David saw the three boxes kept at the back of the bank while he was burning some rough papers he was asked to burn by his boss. He called the manager and other top members of the bank and took them to where the boxes were dumped.
The bank management rewarded David with a promotion to the post of a supervisor and a cash amount of one hundred thou9sand naira. His promotion has since then is rapid and in the last AGM of the bank, he was invited to mount the rostrum. The master of ceremony said “He was single out for his honour and award because he has demonstrated that he derive the alias “Honesty” in practical terms, honesty is the best policy
Published: January 04, 2008
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