The Nigerian lady who went viral after a courtroom video showed her being sued by a man who accused her of breaching a promise after he sent her transport fare has broken her silence.
The clip showed the lady, identified as Jennifer, being given a seven-year prison sentence, with an option to pay a N450,000 fine, for accepting transport money from the man named Emmanuel and not following through on a visit.
In a now-viral video, Jennifer disclosed that the dispute began when she met Emmanuel online.
She said, despite their friendship, they had never met in person. According to Jennifer, Emmanuel wanted her to travel from her home in Asaba to see him in Abuja, but she insisted that since they had never met, he should be the one to see her.
The lady said Emmanuel, however, refused, arguing that he can not visit a woman. She added that he suddenly transferred N50,000 to her account with a message that it was for her transportation and that he expected to see her the next day. Jennifer said she was unimpressed by the gesture.
I will just make this very short because this whole thing is circulating on the internet… So I will just cut the whole sob story and make it very short. Emmanuel sent me money for transportation so that he could see me, but he is a friend I met online, so I do not really know him, and I have never met him in person, she said.
So before Emmanuel sent that money to me, I told him to come over to my city first, but he said no, that he could not go to visit a woman. Later, he told me he wanted me to come over, but I also told him that I could not come visit a man I did not really know and had never met before. Out of the blue, this guy just sent me N50,000 with a text message that this was my transportation and he wanted to see me the next day.
She said she did not acknowledge the payment or his subsequent messages demanding to know why she hadn’t arrived. She said that soon after, she began receiving threatening calls from Emmanuel’s friends.
She said she was alarmed by the calls and attempted to defuse the situation by offering a refund.
Jennifer said after a second attempt to return the money failed because Emmanuel still refused to provide his details, she suggested he use the funds to travel to her instead. According to her, by then, the matter had already been taken to court.
The legal proceedings resulted in her now-viral sentence: seven years in jail or a fine of N450,000. Jennifer confirmed that the case has been resolved.
Like you are doing alpha male for me with N50,000? What should I use N50,000 for? So I just ignored him and did not reply to that message. The following day, he sent me another message asking why I was not there yet, but I also ignored, she said.
Before I knew it, I started getting calls and threats from people, his friends. I do not know who he gave my number but they kept threatening me that their friend sent me money. When I started getting calls from all these people, I then reached out to him that I am no longer comfortable with what is going on and that he should send his account number let me forward the money to him.
He said no, just glared up and started sending some kind of messages. He was so angry, and he said a lot of things that I would not like to say here. After two days, I reached out again and I told him that now that you have sent this money, you know it would not be enough, and you do not want to send your account number so I can refund, come to my city instead.
I do not want to say much about this issue because the whole case has been sorted out. I gave him the N450,000. Obviously, it is nothing to me, that is why I was surprised when he sent N50,000 for transport.
