Woman recovers N1.64m mistakenly sent to Pastor Jerry Eze’s church

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A woman, Sandra Okpara, has recovered N1.64m that she mistakenly transferred to an account linked to Pastor Jerry Eze’s Streams of Joy International.

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Okpara, a single mother of two, had made a public appeal on social media after discovering that she had mistakenly sent N1,640,200 to the church while attempting to transfer the money to another account.

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She said the money belonged to people she was expected to pay and pleaded for help in tracing the funds.

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“This money is not my money. I cannot do offering of 1,640,200. Please help me trace the accounts,” she said in a video shared on social media on Friday.

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According to Okpara, she had earlier transferred N1,000 as an offering before attempting to make another transfer of more than N1.6m to a Zenith Bank account.

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She explained that she only noticed the error after checking the transfer receipt.

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“My hand just clicked that one. Before God and man, it was erroneous,” she said.

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Okpara said she initially approached Zenith Bank and later Moniepoint in an attempt to reverse the transaction, but the recovery process proved unsuccessful.

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She then turned to Pastor Jerry Eze’s online prayer platform after she was unable to establish direct contact with the church.

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“I went to Moniepoint; they lodged the complaint, but they were asking for a court order. I don’t know how to contact them. I went to Pastor Jerry’s online prayer platform,” she said.

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After her video gained attention online, Streams of Joy International said it became aware of the incident and contacted her.

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The woman confirmed receiving the money in a video released on Saturday.

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“My money has been refunded by the church. Thank you to NSSPD, and Pastor Jerry Eze,” she said.

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