Wife Of Former IGP.Mrs Okiro Dies In Her Bathroom.

Wife of former Inspector General of Police,
Sir Mike Mbama Okiro, has died after she
slipped and fell in her bathroom.
Hera Okiro, the woman named in a bank
loan controversy shortly after Mr. Okiro
stepped down as IG died after a freak
accident in her bathroom. Family sources
said Mrs. Okiro could not be reached on time
after she fell on her head in a bathtub in the
former IG's home last Thursday.
She was sixty one.
A banker by profession, Hera was named in
a bank loan fraud in 2009 shortly after her
husband retired as IG, she was named in
her capacity as the managing director of
Hekiro Nigeria limited, a company used by
the former IG to secure contracts from AGIP/
ENI oil company and bank loans from the
defunct Lead Bank of Nigeria.
In July 2009 the Nigeria Deposit Insurance
Corporation (NDIC) accused Mrs Okiro of
borrowing a total of N166. 597 million
between 2000 and 2001 from the defunct
Lead Bank, the bank loan was never repaid
according to the NDIC.
Family sources said Mrs. Okiro is survived by
several children mostly members of the
former IG's family business, Hekiro Nigeria
Limited.