Sarah Martins.
Sarah Martins, Nollywood actress and content creator, has revealed she would rather deploy her money to feeding and empowering the needy than pay tithe.
Martins, who runs a popular YouTube channel through which she produces and distributes Nollywood movies, made the remarks in a recent interview where she spoke about her growing reputation for acts of charity.
Said she: “Instead of enriching billionaire Pastors, I’ll rather use that to empower people who don’t know where their help comes from. I don’t pay tithe. What I do is a means of paying tithe”.
She further to described her relationship with the people she helps in terms that are likely to generate debate.
Disclosed she: “To the streets, I am the God they see. As God is blessing me, I’m transferring the blessing on them as well so that it will go round”.
When asked about the scale of her giving, Martins revealed that she had cooked for as many as 1,000 people at once, funding and preparing the meal entirely by herself.
Revealed she: “That is like two bags of rice. From my own pocket and of course I cooked it myself, alone”.
Born Chukwukere Sarah Ujunwa on August 18, 1991, in Imo State, Martins studied at Ken Saro Wiwa Polytechnic before obtaining a degree from the University of Port-Harcourt. She began her acting career in 2016 and has since appeared in a string of Nollywood productions including “The Widows”, “Dangerous Mad Man”, “The Gods Are Wise”, “Family Lies”, and “Feast of the Spirits”.
Beyond acting, she runs Sarah’s Place Empire in Port-Harcourt and operates a YouTube channel under her name where she releases Nollywood content to a growing audience.
She revealed that the highest she had earned in a single month was ₦40 million, and that the most she had spent producing a movie was ₦15 million, a project she said did not recoup its budget.
Stated she: “It was more of those street interviews”.
Despite the financial risk, Martins said her philosophy around money remained consistent, that giving to someone who can never repay you is the highest form of love.
Noted Martins: “There is no love that is greater than giving to somebody you know will never be able to pay you back”.
