Honest senior citizen taxi driver returns wallet with P16,000

An honest taxi driver on Saturday approached GMA News in order to return a wallet containing P16,000 cash that one of his passengers had left inside his vehicle.

Armando Tolilic, 60, said that a male passenger whom he dropped off early Saturday at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2 accidentally left his wallet in his taxi, GMA News' Bam Alegre reported on Balitanghali. 

Taxi cab driver Armando Tolilic returns wallet with cash worth P16,000 @gmanewsbreaking pic.twitter.com/Y5ISrGM88E

— Bam Alegre (@BamAlegre_) March 24, 2017

Tolilic then immediately sought GMA News' help in the hopes of returning the wallet to its owner. 

GMA Network's security office checked the wallet and found P16,000 cash and some identification cards.

“Unang pasahero ko po 'yun eh, galing po ako ng garahe. Kakapalit lang namin ng ka-partner ko, madaling araw po yun, kaya hindi puwedeng sa ibang pasahero po yun,” Tolilic said. 

Tolilic, a senior citizen, said he wished others would also learn from the incident.

“Kung hindi naman sa kanila eh kailangan pong i-surrender 'yun, kasi mabigat po sa kalooban ng isang tao na magdala siya ng hindi naman kanya na pera o kung ano mang gamit na hindi naman sa kanya,” he said.

“Kailangan pong magsikap eh, hanggang kaya kailangan talagang magsikap ng mga Pilipino,” Tolilic added. — Marlly Rome C. Bondoc/MDM, GMA News