The actress and Actors Guild of Nigeria president was involved in a car
accident in 2006 which led to the death of a medical doctor. She hit his
car along the Lekki/Epe Expressway in Lagos. She was sentenced to five
years imprisonment for manslaughter in 2009 but only spent a few months
there. She came out of prison a completely changed woman, bidding
farewell to alcohol,
cigarettes and partying. The single mother of three who is now a born
again
Christian is setting up a foundation to
cater for the welfare of families of accident victims. Ibinabo explains:
“I do have a foundation which I’m setting up. In 2006, I had an
accident and a medical doctor, Mr. Suraj Giwa died in the process. A
lot of things went wrong, I was sent to jail because of the accident.
It is quite painful, it’s taking me this long because I needed to
find myself again. The foundation is going to be for the families of
accident victims. I’m going to get people to talk to them and to heal
their wounds. What I went through, I was healed by the grace of God.”
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