A Nigerian man has spoken out after discovering that more than N200,000 was purportedly debited from his bank account as a result of a COVID-19-era government intervention that he said was never intended to be a loan.
The individual revealed the information in a popular video, where he described how the money was reportedly withdrawn from his account several years after he got cash from a government COVID-19 assistance program.
According to him, he discovered the problem after receiving a debit warning while returning from a farm inspection in Ekiti State.
The individual stated that he awoke to find that more than N200,000 had been deducted from his account, and that he immediately feared a point-of-sale transaction or another type of unauthorised debit.
He later discovered that the transaction occurred in 2020, amid the COVID-19 epidemic.
He claimed that one of his relatives, whom he identified as a politician, had approached him at the time regarding a government COVID-19 assistance program.
“I woke up yesterday and over 200 and something thousand I was gone from my account. I never knew how this money was debited. I never knew.
I thought it was POS and all of those stuff. Until I traced the money back to 2020. Let me explain.
2020, during the COVID period, one of my uncle reached out to me and was like, bro, there is a government COVID program support that is currently going on.
Send me your account details and in a week time they will send you this amount of money. But you give me 150,000 out of it.
I specifically made it clear This is my body, this is my soul, this is my mind We don’t like debt Is a loan or is a grant?”
He said his uncle assured him that the money was a grant and not a loan.
“He’s a politician He said it’s a grant, but it’s not a loan He made it very clear I sent him my details.”
The man said about three weeks later, approximately ₦378,000 was credited to his account.
He added that the bank deducted about ₦22,000, after which he transferred ₦150,000 to his uncle as agreed.
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