Air Force Officer Gets Double Promotion Over Returned €37,000

 AISHA ABUBAKAR 

An Air Force officer, ACM Bashir Umar, was on Thursday 25th July, 2019, decorated by the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal SB Abubakar, with the new rank of Corporal, which automatically meant a double promotion for the Nigerian Air Force personnel, who returned €37,000, which he found at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, to its owner on Sunday 7th July, 2019.

ACM Bashir reportedly found and returned a parcel that contained 37,000 Euros while he was on patrol. The Nigeria Air Force, NAF, announced that he was due to be rewarded. Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal SB Abubakar, ordered that processes be undertaken “to immediately come up with modalities to reward the airman so as to encourage other personnel of the Service to continue to embody attitudes and behaviours that reflect NAF’s core values of Integrity, Excellence and Service Delivery”

On Thursday, July 25, the Chief of Air Staff delivered the said reward for Bashir’s integrity and for giving the Force a good name with his actions. To honour him, the Air Force boss, Abubakar, sent an aircraft to Kano to transport Umar and his parents to attend the award ceremony at the NAF headquarters in Abuja.

“The special promotion of ACM Bashir to the rank of Corporal today, apart from serving as a reward for good conduct is also to serve as motivation to other airmen/airwomen to aspire for such elevation”  Air Marshal Abubakar said.

ACM Bashir Umar was decorated with the new rank of a Corporal, which according to reports automatically meant a double promotion in the NAF hierarchy. The ceremony was attended by other high ranking officials of the NAF, his parents and he was clad in his full attire as he received a document from the Chief of Staff.