Was this the reason Why Dr. Ingozi quit her job?
want to save her BOSS ambarrassement
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> Nurse's D.C. Extortion Trial Bares Doctor's Costly
> Affair
> By Carol D. LeonnigWashington Post Staff Writer
> Friday, November 2, 2007; Page B01
> A 59-year-old Nigerian neurosurgeon at Providence
> Hospital confesses that he started an affair with a
> 20-something nurse who hailed from his native country.
> But what happened next, authorities say, made him a
> hapless victim of a scam that has been pulled in
> Nigerian communities around the world.
> The nurse and a mysterious partner began demanding
> that the doctor turn over large sums of money -- over
> time, a total of $180,000 -- to keep the affair a
> secret from the doctor's wife, a prominent World Bank
> official and Brookings Institution scholar. They said
> they had pictures of him and the nurse during
> assignations in a car.
> The doctor paid up, but his wife found out anyway,
> according to court papers filed in the case, and now
> the whole sorry mess is being painfully replayed at
> the federal courthouse in Washington, where the nurse
> is on trial on extortion charges.
> The embarrassed doctor told the jury that his
> stupidity sullied his and his family's reputation and
> seriously wounded his marriage.
> "Things will never be the same," a frail-looking,
> gray-bearded Ikemba Iweala said with a sigh as he
> testified this week. "I am still married. . . . But I
> feel very angry at myself. And, I have lost a lot of
> money."
> Iweala hoped to conceal the affair and protect his
> community standing in the United States and in
> Nigeria, he acknowledged to prosecutors. Other members
> of his family, based in the cozy suburb of Potomac and
> with high profiles in their own fields, had much at
> stake as well.
> His wife, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is a former foreign and
> finance minister for Nigeria and a veteran employee of
> the World Bank. She is a Harvard-educated economist
> and was mentioned as a possible successor to Paul D.
> Wolfowitz, who resigned as president in June. This
> month, the new World Bank president, Robert B.
> Zoellick, made her one of his top deputies.
> Uzodinma Iweala, the couple's son, who graduated from
> St. Albans and Harvard, is the author of the
> critically acclaimed "Beasts of No Nation," his first
> novel. The fictionalized story of an African child
> warrior was released last year.
> The doctor's paramour, Queen Nwoye, 28, on trial
> before U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle, insists
> that she, too, was a victim.
> Testifying in her own defense, she admitted yesterday
> that she helped collect the money and helped her
> boyfriend, Adriane Osuagwu, pretend to be her cousin
> so he could conceal his identity. But with a sullen
> face and insistent cries, Nwoye testified that she was
> powerless to resist the orders of Osuagwu, whom she
> described as a physically abusive, controlling man and
> as the scheme's mastermind.
> "This is a sad case," Nwoye's attorney, John Iweanoge,
> told jurors in opening statements earlier in the week.
> "You're going to hear evidence of adultery, no
> question. You're going to hear about money going into
> Ms. Nwoye's accounts."
> But, the defense attorney continued, "Ms. Nwoye was a
> victim too, She made the mistake of her life

> According to court papers, the story began in early
> 2002 when Nwoye, then a nurse in training, noticed the
> doctor's name in a hospital directory. She said she
> recognized Iweala as a fellow Nigerian and introduced
> herself. They became friends, and, in September 2002,
> they became lovers. The sexual relationship ended in
> August 2003, they both say, but their friendship
> continued.
> Nearly three years later, in February 2006, Iweala
> testified, he received a surprise call from Nwoye. She
> told Iweala that he must call her cousin "Ufondu" in
> Georgia. It was then that "Ufondu," an alias that the
> nurse's new boyfriend was using, demanded that the
> doctor pay $20,000 or he would tell Iweala's wife
> about the affair. Within a week, the man demanded
> another $20,000, prosecutors said.
>
> On March 10, 2006, Nwoye called Iweala to suggest that
> they meet because "she said she had not had sex in a
> while," according to court papers. While the two were
> having sex in the parking lot in Nwoye's car, someone
> approached and began taking photographs. That night,
> "Ufondu" called Iweala again to demand an additional
> $100,000, the court papers said.
> Iweala said the demands by "Ufondu" continued.
> Authorities say Nwoye picked up some of the checks and
> cash and deposited the money into her and her
> boyfriend's bank accounts. "There is a lot I could
> have done," she told the jury. "I really wanted
> something to be done, but I couldn't help myself."
> Iweala brought the case to the FBI's attention and
> agreed to help authorities in the prosecution. "He
> felt compelled to bring the culprits to justice in
> order to prevent others from falling prey to a similar
> scheme," said Iweala's attorney, Vincent Cohen.
> Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela Hart-Edwards told
> jurors that the case is not about getting the money
> back. "That's gone," she said.
> One unanswered question for the jury so far concerns
> the boyfriend, Osuagwu. If he orchestrated this
> extortion plot along with the nurse, as the government
> alleges, where is he, and why hasn't he been charged,
> too?
> "Beats me," Nwoye's attorney said. "I'm surprised he's
> not here now, as a defendant."
> Prosecutors declined to comment on why Osuagwu has not
> been charged. Closing arguments in the trial are
> scheduled for today
>
> A jury convicted a Laurel woman late today of taking
> part in an extortion scheme against a neurosurgeon
> with whom she had an affair.
> Queen Nwoye, 28, was accused of conspiring to extort
> $180,000 from Ikemba Iweala, a doctor at Providence
> Hospital. Prosecutors said Nwoye and a partner -- who
> has not been charged in the case -- threatened to
> reveal the affair unless Iweala turned over the money.
> Iweala, who is married, paid the money but then
> alerted authorities, prosecutors said.
>
> Jurors deliberated less than two hours before
> returning their verdict. Nwoye likely faces a
> prison term of 30 to 37 months under federal
> sentencing guidelines, prosecutors said. U.S. District
> Judge Ellen S. Huvelle set a Jan. 18 sentencing date
>
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110102374_2.html
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If that was the real reason she resigns from her position in Nigeria then that was very honourable of her.

We do not know what is going on inside her mind whether she had to resigned not to bring focus on Nigeria if she remained the Finance Minister or as the Foreign Minister as she was then when she resign.

Her resignation letter might give an indication whether it is for personal/family reasons or any other reasons. Only her and God will know the actual truth because people say something different when they actually mean another thing.

The information(or rumours- depending on your preference)  that I heared was that she felt that she has no expertise in foreign Affairs when she was moved and that her niche is Economics and finance. And for her to do go to Foreign ministry would mean she is not using her skill fully.

(correct me if I am wrong, I thought it was the former Education Minister OBY ESKWESILI that went to the world Bank now)- I knew that Okonjo-Iweala was with the world Bank before her appointment.

Anyway it also raises another issue with Women in position of Leadership (who are married) how do they provide for their family/husband needs. I say that because if you just leave the man on his own , assuming he can order Chinesse Take Aways for food or anybody can do his food on the wife behalf what about his 'Love' needs as in Sex and affection and vice versa in terms of the Minister woman on her own in Abuja or whereever.

Hopefully that would have been accounted for as serving your country should not become a home breaking excercise.

I prayed that God will heal the marriage and make the family stronger from this experience.

ON behalf of Nigerians we thank the Iweala family for the service of Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala to Nigerians when she answered the call to serve her father land. We thank you and we are very grateful for your good service.

Any female would have done the same honourable thing to save or work on her marriage. But OBJ slanders that had no idea what was going on in her life said and exaggerated that OBJ fired her, People like ChildChris and BIG B1 should stop spreading rumors.

She resigned because Obj removed her as the head of the Economic Management Team while she was away in the UK negotiating for the relief of our foreign debts. She was apparently removed as the head because of her posture towards the 'come and chop' government of Obj. She was still active in government when the scandal actually broke out, so it couldn't have been because of it.

She was never sacked by Obj.

@vigasimple,
She is now one of the IBRD's MDs while Ezekwesili is a Vice President

Oyinbo people dont have the foggiest idea about the way things work in Nigeria. How would she resign 'because she wanted to save her boss from embarassment?'

@ gmcln do you have any idea how many illegitimate affairs the boss himself enjoyed during the eight years he was President? Please stop fueling all these lame rumours abeg.