Even in jail, Joy Ugwu Nnenne, the reigning Asaigbo pageant queen, still radiates and commands the aura and influence of ‘royalty’. The poster girl that she is has become a star among fellow inmates at the Kirikiri Prison, Lagos, where she has been remanded by a magistrate court over alleged fraud.
The prisoners referred to her as “Queen”, due to the large number of visitors she played host to daily, while other times she is called “MMM”, an allusion to the charge that brought her to prison.
Saturday Sun on June 17, 2017, reported the case of Joy, the current beauty queen of Asaigbo pageantry, who is on remand in Kirikiri prison for allegedly fleecing Jonathan Nwogu, Anita Oby and others of N7million.
She was alleged to have resorted to hide-and-seek tactics after failing to secure a visa for Nwogu, after the latter reportedly paid a million naira to her. She is also accused of defrauding Oby of N2 million through a ponzi scheme called “Me and You” purportedly floated by the former.
The incarcerated beauty queen gave her side of the story in an exclusive interview when Saturday Sun visited her inside the Kirikiri female prison on Wednesday June 21. Debunking the allegations against her as false, she claimed her traducers, counting on her propensity to protect her social image, were out to intimidate her to quietly pay them and settle the matter.
Affirming her innocence, she emphasised she also lost money to the ponzi scheme, and that is the reason she is emboldened to exercise her civil right in opting for the court after spending three days in the cell at the State Crime Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba.
“I didn’t create the ‘Me and You scheme’, I was just a participant like her (Oby),” she insisted. “Do I look like someone who can do so, when I have not finished studying my Accounting?”
She went on:
“When they told me to pay up, I was reluctant because I didn’t see any crime in the scheme. I can only be guilty if I created the scheme, which I didn’t. I to
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