By Tetch Torres
INQUIRER.net
The Bureau of Immigration commended its officer for his honesty after he returned an envelope containing $10,000 in cash to an outbound passenger at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
Amando L. Amisola, who has been with the Bureau of Immigration for less than two years, has been promoted to supervisor for his honesty and deep sense of professionalism, Immigration Officer-In-Charge Ronaldo Ledesma said.
“Your honesty and integrity is the clearest indication yet that we now have in the Bureau of Immigration a cadre of young employees and officials whose sense of professionalism is unquestioned and beyond doubt,†Ledesma told Amisola.
Amisola, whose mother is seriously ill in the hospital with stage-four cancer, said he never hesitated to return the money when he found it.
He narrated that he was conducting primary inspection on departing passengers at the NAIA Terminal I around 11 a.m. on November 27 when he noticed a brown envelope in front of his counter.
He immediately checked the package and found a bundle of $100 dollar bills inside, along with the travel documents of an immigrant Filipino family bound for Canada, apparently on their way to stay there for good.
“I immediately left the envelope to my fellow immigration officers so that I can leave my counter and find the passenger who left the money,†he said. “I saw them approaching the boarding area and I called out to ask the man if has not forgotten anything.â€
The passenger, Francisco Patricio, then realized that their money was missing. He told Amisola while walking back to the immigration area that there was almost a million pesos in the envelope. Patricio’s wife, Maricel, was then already in tears.
“I brought him to the counter again to check his envelope and counted the money, and he found it intact. He was thankful and expressed his gratitude,†Amisola said in an incident report he submitted to lawyer Arvin Santos, acting chief of the BI Airport Operations Division, and Theodore Pascual, AOD head supervisor at NAIA I.
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