By Olubunmi Adebayo
*I encourage you to take your time and reflect after reading through this COPIED true life story :*
*I know a retired police man : a devout and God fearing Christian.*
*While in service, they nicknamed him “Pastor”. He suffered bad posting for about 34yrs of his career life.*
*He rose from the level of a constable to the rank of a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP)*
*His popular name then was : “HE NO DEY GIVE, HE NO DEY TAKE”.*
*Meaning he doesn’t give bribes to get good postings, neither does he take bribe from civilians.*
*Most police men he worked with never liked him because of this – they saw him as a “spoiler”.*
*He was posted from one bad posting to another, he was never posted anywhere there was any reasonable allowance.*
*Anywhere genuine money was, he would not be posted there because they disliked him generally for his stand.*
*He stood for righteousness and never liked cheating innocent people.*
*So some big men in the force didn’t like him.*
*If anyone did anything evil in his presence he would expose them and make them face the wrath of the law.*
*From one State to another, he was transferred and he kept moving.*
*This was how he moved for about 34yrs and 5months of his working life.*
*For all of the years he worked, he had no land talk more of a house, but he managed to train his four children in school with his meagre salary and the petty trading his wife was doing to support the family.*
*He had about 7 months to retire from service when he was posted to the Police Force Headquarters,Abuja on Standby Duty.*
*He was in charge of standby men at the Force Headquarters.*
*So one day, under the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, and one particular FCT Minister, things turned around for the better in his life.*
*During the enforcement of the Abuja master plan of 2006, the government needed to do some demolition within the Abuja metropolis.*
*So the Minister drove to the police headquarters and requested for some policemen to be attached to the Task Force incharge of demolition.*
*So this DSP in charge of Standby Duties, an old man, was asked to lead the men on the special duty.*
*They went to carry out the duty assigned to them by the Honorable Minister without any hassles.*
*After about two days of rigorous working, the Minister picked interest in the DSP because of his commitment to duty and his uprightness.*
*And asked him, “Officer how are you?*
*”Fine sir” he replied the Minister.*
*The Hon. Minister then asked him, “do you have a car?”*
*The man responded, “I have one push and start Volvo Sir”. Of course he had one 1990 lift back volvo model which he stopped using as there was nobody to help him to push it because there was no money to buy battery.*
*And that was all he had as property in his over thirty-four years of serving his country.*
*The Minister then asked one of his aides to bring a key to a brand new Prado Jeep parked at the Secretariat and handed over the key of the car to the dutiful DSP.*
*The old man was surprised.*
*The Minister said,”this is now your new car, I just like you.”*
*The man could not believe his ears and what just happened.*
*Was he dreaming?*
*They went out that day on their routine duty of providing security for the Task Force.*
*When they returned same day, the minister called the DSP again, now his friend, and asked if he has a land.*
*The man said, “Sir apart from this jeep you gave me and my push and start Volvo, I have nothing else on earth”, he said and stood at attention.*
*”How long have you been in service?” The Minister asked .*
*He said, ” I have 7 months to retire sir!” He responded and gave a salute.*
*The Minister was moved with compassion and handed over documents of a plot of land to him located at Asokoro in Abuja.*
*The man was dazzled with what was happening, and while still looking with bewilderment, the Minister asked his aide to take him to one of the duplexes at Wuse Phase 2 and handed over a house there to him as his new property.*
*The man collapsed….out of joy.*
*The news went viral, and got to Force Headquarters.*
*The man who posted him there just to punish him didn’t know he was pushing him to his recovery of many years.*
*Please know that it pays to be God-fearing and to serve God.*
*Not too long from then, the Minister travelled abroad and the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in charge of operations at the Force Headquarters who posted the DSP for the assignment was very bitter upon hearing what happened.*
*He quickly used signal to remove him from there to report back on standby at the Force Headquarters.*
*The man returned and the DCP posted his own brother to go and take over the special duty.*
*To be concluded tomorrow, God willing.*
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