Blessing Okoro, the social media influencer popularly known as Blessing CEO, has confessed to inventing a breast cancer diagnosis as a means of raising money from the public.
She had announced in March that she was battling breast
cancer. She, however, came under heavy criticism in April for a fundraising
appeal tied to the cancer treatment.
Blessing also revealed that she received N13 million in
public donations, not the widely circulated N100 million.
This was after businessman Alafaa Kariboye-Igbo came
forward, claiming he had sent her N20 million and was demanding a refund.
However, she later addressed controversy surrounding her
health, arguing that she does not have ‘stage 4’ breast cancer.
In a recent interview with VeryDarkman, the social media
activist, she revealed that financial pressure pushed her to stage the
fundraising appeal. She also admitted that she never had cancer.
“The pressure was too much, and when the cancer drama came
in, because of the pressure, I saw this embarrassment coming, then I said to
myself, what stunt can I pull? Then I pull up a cancer stunt,” she said.
“I don’t have cancer. Honestly, I don’t have cancer. But the
truth is, I had gone for check up few month ago and they found a lump on my
boobs but it was not cancerous.
“So I took advantage of that, came to the media to cry for
help and said that it was cancerous. Some people had empathy.”
She said she did not initially intend to share her account
details publicly but did so after fans encouraged her to accept donations.
“I didn’t come out to beg for funds; I am going to be very
honest. I played an emotional game. I wanted funds, but I didn’t come out
directly to ask. I first of all started by pretending that I wanted to sell my
personal belongings, my car, my house, so people had empathy,” she said.
“It was fans who reached out to me and said that if we can
do this for an ordinary person not feeling well, why not you as a celebrity.
Put out your account number. So that was when I put out my account number.
“Donations were rolling in. I was honoured until VeryDarkMan
came and said, ‘Ah, people cannot be donating money for Blessing when there is
no evidence.’ Immediately, he made that video; donations paused.
“So, I was like, oh, what do I do? That was when the whole
orchestration, results and all that came up. I am not proud of what I did. I
was able to raise ₦30 million for the whole cancer drama.”
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