Metro Trans East Africa Limited, a transport company plying various routes in Nairobi, has rewarded its conductor famed for returning Sh200,000 belonging to a passenger who had forgotten it in his fleet.
In a statement on their Facebook page, the company said they have rewarded Jobson Motari, though they did not specify, and allocated him a permanent fleet for his kind gesture.
"The company offered him a token and allocated him a permanent fleet to work with," Metro Trans statement reads.
Motari returned the huge sum that Doreen Nyamuzi had unknowingly left in the bus she had boarded from town to Kabiria.
After disembarking from the bus, she discovered that an envelope that had the money was missing and that the vehicle had already left for town.
She patiently waited for the bus to come back and when it finally arrived, she approached the conductor and inquired about the cash.
Nyamuzi says the driver handed the cash to her without any confrontation.
"I boarded a matatu from town to Kabiria two weeks ago and left an envelope with KSh 200,000 in the vehicle. I was going to pay my mother’s hospital bill. Luckily, I asked the conductor, and he returned my envelope," she wrote on Facebook.
Speaking to a local publication, Motari said Nyamuzi was seated next to him on the fateful day when she forgot the bunch of notes.
"She was seated next to me and forgot the envelope when she alighted. So I opened it and found money inside. I went to town for another trip, and on returning to Kabiria, I found her waiting for me, and I returned the money,” he said.
Metro Trans also shared more details about Motari revealing that he is a diploma IT graduate from The Technical University of Kenya.
He has worked with Metro Trans for two years and he is described by his management as a very humble, trustworthy, decent, kind, hardworking and staunch Christian who values his duties and responsibility.
Motari hails from Nyacheki, Kisii County, and he is a father of two.
