A matatu conductor melted the hearts of many when he returned a passenger’s wallet with all of the Ksh30,000 intact.
Daniel Mwaura maintained that his act of honesty was inspired by the belief that he should do good and that even if he took the money, it would not solve his problems.
Mwaura whose story went viral on social media stated that he had just dropped off commuters on when he spotted a wallet with the money inside.
He recalls that his first reaction was that the owner must be devastated, and went ahead and informed his employer and deposited the wallet with only Ksh300 at the office, and asked them to notify him if anyone came to claim it.
[caption caption="Daniel Mwaura, the Nairobi tout who returned a passenger's wallet with Ksh30,000"]
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A day after he surrendered the wallet, he was called by an office staffer who informed him that the owner of the wallet Stanley Kaberi, had shown up.
Mwaura stated: “I told Stanley to cross over to our fire station stage. When we met, I asked him what else was in his wallet and when he gave me the exact amount as Ksh30,000, I surrendered the money that I had been carrying around with me.”
Stanley told Mwaura that the money was meant for his sick child’s hospital bill and thanked him.
“He asked me what he could give me in return, but I told him to first deal with his sick child and we shall meet later,” Mwaura recalled.
“I believe that one should do to others what he expects them to do to him, and even if I had pocketed that money, Ksh30,000 could not have ended all my problems. Even if it had been more than Ksh30,000, I would still have surrendered it because I believe in earning clean money,” he stated.
Raised by a single mother who was selling uji at the city’s Country Bus Station to bring up her two boys, Mwaura’s life shaped him towards honesty.
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