10/24/2023
Please permit me to introduce to you Ms. Faithlyn Egbonkhan a very honest Nigerian.
Yesterday at the end of the work day, my staff at the clinic informed me that they were missing one Gucci sunglasses that retails for 600 dollars and couldn't tell how it managed to disappear from the clinic.
Since it was the end of the day, I told them to leave it till today for us to figure out what transpired but that I was very confident that none of my staff will do such a thing as stealing glasses because they have never crossed that line before.
Today when I came to the clinic they informed me that the sunglasses was still nowhere to be found. I could tell that they were beginning to panic, so I told them to take time to look around the office that it may have just been put in the wrong place by mistake by any of the staff.
An our later Ms. Faithlyn Egbonkhan walked into the clinic and requested to see me urgently, so I obliged her the request.
She held my hands in a very apologetic manner and told me how sorry she was to have mistakenly walked away with one of my Gucci sunglasses yesterday when she came to purchase glasses from my clinic. She did try on a pair of glasses when was here to pick up her glasses yesterday but wasn't sure how this particular one ended up in her bag when she got home.
I had to call all my staff to my waiting room to let them know that we have the missing Gucci sunglasses and that it was returned by this very honest lady and a Nigerian for that matter. The lesson that her single act reaffirmed is to Never paint a particular people with the same brush. Typically Nigerians are always painted with a bad brush but today she has rewritten that narrative in a positive manner and I hope that every Nigerian will learn a lesson from this and realize that only we as the proud Nigerians that we are can change this narrative by using ourselves in any position that we find ourselves to prove the world wrong.
Honesty is a virtue that doesn't depend on nationality, race, tribe, religion or any of the man made dividing lines that we find ourselves in but on us as individuals. You either have it or you don't.
Thanks again Ms. Faithlyn Egbonkhan for showing the world a different side of the Nigerians they don't see everyday in the media.