Ghana’s Vice President has presented a cash reward of GH¢20,000 to Accra- based taxi driver.
Dr Mohamadu Bawumia made the donation through a popular Ghanaian whistle blower media organization, The Fourth Estate for onward presentation to the honest taxi driver.
The Fourth Estate has also received additional 2,500 Ghana Cedis from two other donors who preferred to remain anonymous to be presented to the same driver.
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Dr Mohamadu Bawumia said the reward is in recognition of the taxi driver’s exemplary honestly.
The vice president’s gesture followed appeal by the Editor-in-chief of the Forth Estate, Manasseh Awuni Azure.
The taxi driver, Isaac Ackon returned an amount of 8, 400 Ghana Cedis left in his taxi to it’s owner on Easter Sunday.
The owner of the money and her family were captured in a video thanking the the good Samaritan amid weeping.
One family member in the said video confessed that the lost of the cash rendered the entire family sleepless.
The video went viral on various Ghanaian social media platforms last week Wednesday.
The Ghanaian ace* investigative journalist and Editor-in-chief of The Fourth Estate was moved by the taxi driver’s honest act after watching the video.
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Manasseh Azure Awuni then proposed on his Facebook page that the man’s action deserved something more than verbal praises.
His proposal recieved mass endorsement by the Ghanaian public resulting in the the Vice President’s GH¢20,000 donation.
Isaac Ackon in an interview said he picked the trader on Easter Saturday around 8pm local time at Malata Market enroute to Teshie, both suburbs of the capital, Accra.
He dropped off his last passenger at her Teshie destination and drove to the house.
Upon reaching home, Ackon decided to engage in his usual after work checks and cleaning.
While performing his task, he found something wrapped in a rag-like cloth in the taxi.
He told The Fourth Estate he at first wanted to discard the object outright but decided to check it out of curiosity.
The taxi driver said he unwrapped the cloth only to find cedi noted as its content.
He said he did not even bother to know how much was contained in the parcel.
Isaac disclosed he immediately figured it might belong to his Tehsie bound passenger.
The good Samaritan drove straight to the vicinity where he had dropped off the woman the previous night only to meet the family wailing over the loss.
Editor-in-chief of The Fourth Estate presenting the 22, 500 Ghana Cedi
reward to Mr. Ackon asked what motivated him to return the money.
The taxi driver answered that his Christian faith and values does not teach him to do otherwise.
