Plateau: Army honours soldier with N500,000 after he rejected kidnapper's offer

A worker of the Nigerian Army, Private Utim Terwase, has received a currency reward of N500,000 for turning down a bribe of the aforesaid magnitude allegedly offered to him by a suspected kidnapper successful Plateau State.

Terwase arrested the fishy erstwhile helium tried to flight during cognition but refused to cod the N500,000 the kidnapper offered to fto him go.

Instead of taking the money, the worker handed the fishy implicit to the authorities and chose to bash his job.

The reward was fixed connected behalf of the General Officer Commanding 3 Division and Commander of Operation Enduring Peace, Major General Maxwell Dangana. The Commander of Sector 6, Colonel Philimon Malgwi, presented the wealth to the worker connected Wednesday.

Speaking astatine the event, Dangana said Terwase displayed precocious level of professionalism, loyalty and dedication expected from soldiers of the Nigerian Army.

He said the backstage showed honesty and selfless work by refusing to compromise, adding that his enactment deserves commendation and should beryllium emulated by different personnel.

The GOC called connected officers and soldiers nether Operation Enduring Peace to transcript the honesty of Terwase, noting that rewarding specified behaviour is portion of efforts to promote subject and bully behaviour successful the operation...