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A Nigerian mechanic simply known as Timothy, who returned N10.8m mistakenly sent to his account has been given N50k as reward.
This was disclosed on Facebook by one of his customers, Chinonso Ndukwe, saying he learnt so from Timothy after he met him in person on Tuesday.
Sharing a photo he took with Timothy, Chinonso said “Before going on TV I went to my mechanic to ask him about what I saw all over the Internet yesterday.
“He has been serving me very well. So when I read that he returned 10.8 million to one of his customers i was impressed. Today when I saw him he was quite ill .
“He said he is having h£adache. The man that he returned his money gave him N50,000.00. People can be really unimaginable. Behold!”
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) earlier reported that popular Nollywood actress, Kate Henshaw, hailed Timothy for returning the money mistakenly transferred to his account.
Praying for Mr Timothy on Twitter, the actress (Kate Henshaw) said: “God bless Mr Timothy, who returned N10.8M naira that was mistakenly transferred to him. You will not lack favour, peace, and long life.”
See reactions as culled from netizens
However, one TRUE AFRICAN HEROES said: “I go first use 800k for Uber than stop at any good restaurant chop like 2m , I believe the Oga house go far small , I need to lodge with 5m and use 3m for security, I go tell the Oga my story, I believe eh go touch am! Him fit tell me make I wire my aza make him run another one , What a smart leave.”
Tessy Okereke, on her part, narrated how she mistakenly transferred one hundred thousand naira twice to her furniture guy, who confirmed receiving it but has not refunded her excess transfer.
In her words: “God bless you Mr Timothy . Not everyone will do this oo. I transferred 100K twice to my furniture guy & he confirmed receiving it but he hasn’t refunded d 100K back to me. How do I want to start chasing this guy? It’s @ecobank_nigeria that I blame sha.”