Joseph C. Amadi Ugomma the Notorious Mistress

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This is the true story of Ugomma an African notoriousbeauty queen. She was married twice both her husbandsbeing polygamous. Her fi rst marriage to Chief Ibenemelasted barely a year. After committing aborminationwith her brother in-law Oga Mike. Soon after, both weredragged to the outskirt of Ndiowu town, where theygot stripped of their clothes before been subjected toprolonged beating and mandatory twenty four lashes ofa cane on their bare butts.She was barred from returning to her husbands home inNdiown indefi nitely, and was eventually handed over toher parents with nothing and without sympathy.In addition, she was ordered to reimburse her husbandChief Ibeneme for the expenditure she had incurred. Her accomplice, Oga Mike, was banned from returningfor forty-eight hours.A few years later after her divorce, she met Chief Obi,whom she married, but after few months she foundherself in a vulnerable position, tragically caught up ina ritual murder orchestrated by her so-called husband,to whom she devoted her life with love and trust.