LA
TRINIDAD, Benguet -- Two Cordillerans - a vegetable trader and
an airport cleaner were recently recognized for their extraordinary acts
of honesty.
On Thursday, La Trinidad Mayor Romeo Salda awarded a
certificate of recognition and other tokens to Alice Baguitan, a resident of
Barangay Pico, for displaying extraordinary honesty.
Baguitan, a 37 year-old mother of two, went
viral over the internet after she returned to the owner P 2.7
million cash which she found inside a restaurant in Laoag City, Ilocos
Norte .
Baguitan, who went to Laoag City to deliver
vegetables from La Trinidad, said she was eating at a fast food restaurant
on August 7 when she noticed a bag left behind by two female
customers who left in a hurry.
She opened the bag and she was surprised that it was
filled with a large amount of cash. She immediately went outside the
restaurant but the women left already.
She reported the incident to the police. Then she
remembered the conversation of the two ladies which she overheard that they
were going to bus terminal. She proceeded to the bus terminal, and there she
saw the women and gave them the bag.
Baguitan said the owners offered a reward money but
she refused to take it.
“I did not receive the reward since I believe that as
a Christian, I just did the right thing and I believe that God rewards me with
more blessings,” Baguitan in vernacular.
This was not the first time Baguitan found and returned a
large sum of money. Last year in Laoag City also, she also found a pouch
left by a passenger in a tricycle which contained P750, 000.00 which she also
returned to the owner.
Baguitan, a native of Bauko, Mountain Province, was praised
by netizens and her fellow Cordillerans for showing an extraordinary act of
honesty and not accepting any reward.
Salda said that “the extraordinary acts of honesty by Alice
Baguitan is a true act of a Cordilleran and is worthy of emulating and be proud
off.”
The La Trinidad Sangguniang Bayan has also filed a
resolution commending her for serving as inspiration and pride to the whole La
Trinidad community.
Meanwhile, an honest airport cleaner from Abra returned
7,300 Euro or P430, 000, a wallet and an iPad to its Turkish owner on August
10, 2019.
Sixto Brillante Jr. found a bag containing cash and
other items at the male comfort room at the Manila International Airport
Authority while cleaning the facility. Brillante immediately tried to locate
the owner through the airport paging system and the bag was subsequently turned
over to the Lost and Found Section of the Intelligence and Investigation
Division of the MIAA.
A Turkish passenger after going through the
verification process, was determined to be the rightful owner of the bag.
“Mr. Brillante could have easily kept the bag and
favorably benefitted from what’s inside it, but he chose to surrender it. I
admire him for his integrity. Hearing stories like this makes us Filipinos
proud,” MIAA Manager Ed Monreal stated.
The airport chief encouraged airport workers to always
practice the virtue of honesty in any situation that may call for it.
“Doing good should never be an option. It must be a way of
life for all of us,” Monreal said. (JDP/RMC- PIA CAR)
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