James Ibori's Mistress Udoamaka Okoronkwo Yet To Get Her Groove Back After Return From Jail

Two years after she was released from prison in the United Kingdom, Udoamaka Okoronkwo-Onuigbo, the celebrated mistress of former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, is struggling to get her life back on track. but her efforts are being frustrated by circumstances beyond her control. 

First of all, Udoamaka has been striving hard to wriggle out of the stigma of being an ex-convict. 

 she is also battling to revive her business, which reportedly took a downward turn during her trial and imprisonment. Her wine retail shop, Sagicon, located on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi was closed down, following  complaints of poor financial returns. 

Since her release from Jail, Udoamaka only has a handful of people to relate with, as most of her friends deserted her during her tribulations.

Udoamaka, who has a daughter for Ibori, was in custody at an all-female Holloway Prison in London after she was arrested in France in October 2008. 

Ibori had found it difficult in getting her out on bail because most of his associates engaged in money laundering activities in the UK were unwilling to sign a bail bond that could invite the London police to look into their finances. 

Udoamaka was tried alongside Ibori’s sister, Christine Ibori-Ibie, found guilty of money laundering and mortgage fraud and was sentenced to five years by Judge Christopher Hardy of a Southwark London Crown Court in June 2010. The two women were accused and subsequently convicted of handling proceeds of criminal transaction on behalf of Ibori while he was governor of Delta State. 

The court ordered that their sentences run concurrently and Udoamaka was released in 2012, and has since been struggling to get her groove back. 

She now keeps a low profile and restricts herself to relating to very few people....culled.