‘I apologise for using my employer’s daughter’s photo to fake my death’

A 19-year-old housemaid, Margaret Ikumu, who allegedly used the image photo of her employer’s daughter to fake her death on Facebook, has apologised to the daughter, Dr Nimechi Ugorji, and her family. Ikumu had faked her death on the social media on the claim she did so to end the financial pressure her mother and […]

A 19-year-old housemaid, Margaret Ikumu, who allegedly used the image photo of her employer’s daughter to fake her death on Facebook, has apologised to the daughter, Dr Nimechi Ugorji, and her family.

Ikumu had faked her death on the social media on the claim she did so to end the financial pressure her mother and uncle were mounting on her.

She was said to have connived with some of her friends to perfect the act.

She was subsequently arrested after her boss stumbled on the Facebook post.

In an apology message a representative of the Ikumu family, Mr Tony Iji, sent to the Ugorji family, the Ikumu family expressed regret over the mischievous action of their daughter.

The letter read, “On behalf of Margaret Ikumu’s family, we wish to tender an unreserved apology to the entire Ugorji family, especially Dr Nimechi, for Margaret’s irresponsible behaviour and for misleading us to also wrongly use the same image of Dr Nimechi in our posting as Marvellous Mary, who claimed to have buried Margaret’s corpse in her mischievous fake death saga. All actions concerning the usage of Dr Nimechi’s image in connection with the fake death plot by Margaret is regretted.”

The family equally expressed regret over Margaret’s act of parading the corpse of the late matriarch of the Ugorji family, Mrs Ugorji, on Facebook, purporting to be her own dead body.