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From Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Onitsha
A 39-year-old man and POS operator in Ebonyi State, Vincent Nwogbodo, has returned N274,000 excess money transferred into his account by one Mrs. Jane Ifeoma Asogwa at Eke Nibo in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
Nwogbodo, who also hails from Ebonyi State, operates his POS business in Ishieke in Ebonyi Local Government Area when he received alert of N305,000 instead of N30,500 from a customer in Anambra State who wanted to send money home through his POS.
It was like a drama when Nwogbodo met with Asogwa at Eke Nibo after much explanations, as she started shouting and dancing around the market to have recovered her over paid money which she felt had gone.
The traders and market women gathered in their numbers and started singing and dancing in celebration, praising and praying for Nwogbodo for his kind and God-fearing mind.
Nwogbodo said he decided to trace the owner through her Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) registration because he did not believe in corner way of richness but believe in genuine way of making money.
“Someone from my village who is residing there (Anambra) gave my account number to her to send the money me to give her people in the village and instead of N30,500, she mistakenly transferred N305,000.
“The one who sent the money to my account did not know what happened and she doesn’t have phone, I then traced them from CAC through their business name, Jimas Communication Network and traced the owner from Ebonyi to Anambra State to handover the cash.
“I returned the money due to my faith in God. Any money I do not work for is not my money unless someone willingly gift me…
Asogwa who hails from Enugu State but operates her business at Eke Nibo when she was identified by Nwogbodo as POS operator at the market shouted with joy which made traders and other market women to gather to witness the ‘miracle.’
She said she never believed human beings and a youth for that matter, would be trustworthy and could exhibit such Godly manner by returning money to somebody he did not know.
“It was a miracle. I can see that not every young people are ‘Yahoo boys or do 419’ in this country. We still have genuine people like Vincent.
“Nigerians should be celebrating such characters. Government, good spirited individuals and non-governmental organisation/agencies should honour him and appreciate him to teach others lesson of good character. We should appreciate good character than to hail evil. This man need to be supported morally, financially and otherwise for this singular act. It could be anybody.
“I pray God to highly and surely bless him beyond measures for such uncommon display of trust. Our youths should learn from such a character, we should be contented with what we have and who we are than to live a fake and fraudulent life,” Asogwa said.
