Every day is full of regrets for Evarline Okello who lives in a shack in the sprawling slums of Kibera, Nairobi.
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Evarline Okello from Kibera found herself entangled in debt after borrowing money to “sow a seed” at one of the Nairobi pastors.
Evarline’s loan currently stands at KSh 38,000 from the initial figure of KSh 15,000.
That was not how she envisioned her life would turn out, but it is where she is now and the much she can do is shed tears.
Evarline took a loan of KSh 15k In an interview with BBC, the mother of four disclosed that her woes may have started way back,
but they were compounded by her quest to better her life.
According to her, she was struggling to feed her children when she heard that a pastor would pray for her to receive a financial breakthrough.
But there was a catch; Evarline had to part with KSh 15,000 in what was referred to as a “seed offering.”
She discloses that whoever informed her about the clergyman waxed lyrical about how powerful he is
and that she would repay the money in days. The loan has ballooned to KSh 38k
Given that there was hope for better things ahead, she borrowed the money from a friend who took a loan on her behalf.
It dawned on her that she had been conned when there was no positive financial change in her life, and things even got worse.
The loan her friend took on her behalf has since ballooned out of control due to unpaid interest and currently stands at KSh 38,000.
“I have no idea how I’ll pay the money back and my friend stopped talking to me. Things have become so difficult I have lost all hope,” she lamented.
In an almost similar story, a Kenyan woman who worked in Saudi Arabia stormed a church in Githurai and accused the pastor of conning her out of KSh 400k.
A viral video showed the moment the angry woman went into Rhema Gospel Church to demand her money from the clergyman.
The pastor is reported to have taken to the hills after the lady went to the church looking for him.