From left: Presidential steward, Onu Isaac Michael, Taxi driver, Imeh Usuah and traffic warden Cpl Solomon Dauda, conferred with the Member of the Order of the Niger, MON and MFR, today.
In recognition of their service to their fatherland, an honest taxi driver, a hardworking traffic warden and the chief steward in the presidency who had served nine presidents, were awarded National Honours and given brand new homes in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday in Abuja.
The taxi driver, Mr. Umeh Usuah, was accorded recognition for returning N18 million, a laptop, and other documents to an expatriate who forgot them in his cab. He was conferred with Member of the Order of the Niger (MON), in addition to the house in the FCT.
Police Corporal Solomon Dauda and Mr. Michael Onuh, the steward in the presidency, were each rewarded with homes in Nigeria’s administrative capital and became MONs.
Equally recognised was the designer of the national flag, Pa Michael Akinkunmi, who was rewarded for his efforts more than five decades after he stitched together the green-white-green colours that symbolise Nigeria, with the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).
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