I know a retired police man, a devot Christian,while in service, they nicknamed him “Pastor”, he suffered bad posting for about 34yrs…He rose from constable to DSP,
His popular name den was “HE NO DEY GIVE, HE NO DEY TAKE” ..
This means he doesn’t give bribe to get good posting neither does he takes bribe from civilians…
Most people he worked with never liked, him because 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 dey, he will not be posted there, because they disliked him generally for his stand.
However, he stood for righteousness and never liked cheating innocent, sp some big men didn’t like him
If anyone did anything evil in his presence, he would expose him or her and ensure such an officer faces the wrath of the law.
From one State to another, he was transferred and he kept moving.
This was how he moved about for 34yrs and 5months.
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 7months to retire from service when he was posted to the Police Force Headquarters Abuja on standby duty and put in charge of standby men at the Force Headquarters.
So one day, under the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo and Mallam Nasir Elrufai as Minister of the FCT, 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 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 hasles.
After about two days of working, the minister picked interest in the DSP because of his commitment to duty and asked him, “Officer how are u?”.”Fine sir he replied the minister.”
Elrufai then asked him, “do you have a car?” The man responded, “I have one push and start Volvo”, of cause he had a volvo of 1992 model which he stopped using anytime there was nobody to help him to push it because there was no money to buy a battery.
And that was all he had as property in his over thirty-four years of serving his country.
The Minister asked one of his aids 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.”
Wow, the man couldn’t believe his ears of 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, 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 aid to take him to one of the duplexes at wuse phase 2 and handed over the house to him as his new property.
The man collapsed out of joy.
The news went viral 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.
It pays to serve God, brothers and sisters.
Not too long from then, the Minister traveled abroad and the DCP in charge of operation 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.
When the DSP got to office, the DCP told him that whatever he was given was a proceed of the special duty and he needed to sell those things so that he could share the money for everyone who took part in the duty.
The DSP told the DCP that he was given those things and they were for him alone because they were given to him and not the team.
But the DCP threatened him and insisted that the last orders should be obeyed!
So the DSP said, “no wahala sir if you want to take everything take it sir.”
While they were still on the matter, the Minister returned from his trip abroad and asked, “where is my friend, the DSP”?
They told him he has been changed and the ASP here is the new officer in charge.
Furious, the minister called the IGP and asked him to return his friend to him.
The IGP called the DIG Operations and ordered him to post the man back to the minister, that he was not aware of any change!
The DIG asked the DCP who removed the man out of envy to use his own official Hilux car to return the man to the Honorable Minister and should personally hand him over to him and give report back to him with immediate effect!
Vooom, this is a case of Haman and Mordecai…
The DCP,out of shame but must obey the last order,took the DSP in his Hilux car with escorts and drove straight to the secretariat, handed over the DSP to the Minister.
The DSP while narrating the story later said the Minister gave the DCP 100dolars and asked him never to remove his friend untill the special duty was over!
Elrufai a Muslim, the DSP a Christian, but God can use anyone to bless you.
This was how the DCP left in shame and the DSP remained there till he retired.
Elrufai personally called his friends and hosted a banquet to celebrate the DSP on his retirement.
On that day of his retirement, the Minister gave him a check of 10 million naira and his friends donated several millions and handed it over to the man.
One of the friends of the Minister at the event gave him a plot of land inside Abuja Central Business District worth N 200million, if sold!
This was how God blessed him in less than 7months to his retirement.
Everything he lost, he gained in many folds and he has well brought up children to continue where he stopped his service without blemish.
He retired as a millionaire, two plots of lands, valued at about N400m if sold, a duplex, well furnished and one other car aside the prado jeep.
Indeed, righteousness exalts a people, but sin is a reproach.
In all you are doing, remember that heaven is taking records, he knows how to reward his faithful servants..
His poverty ended just like that but he did not compromise his stand for truth and righteousness for those 35 years in a police job that was labelled the most corrupt profession in the country.
A good story to tell, to encourage anyone who might want to give up his commitment to duty because of the frustrations he or she is facing on the job.
Look into the new year with some bright hope. Your reward might actually not be in terms of property or cash that you can count but in greater intangible things that we all take for granted.
Copied, edited by Dada Ahmed.
