Veteran Actor, James Iroha (Giringory) Is Dead

Veteran actor and one of the actors in the popular TV Series New Masquerade, Chief James Udensi Akwari Iroha, popularly known as Gringory died on Tuesday, 28th February, 2012.

A leading member of the cast of one of the longest running comedy on Nigerian television -Masquerade (which later transformed to the New Masquerade) - Iroha was the creative powerhouse of the serial and it was a positive commentary on his humility that  he wrote and directed most of the stories but assigned the role of a houseboy to himself. He was 70 years old.

According to one of his son, Uche James Iroha, who confirmed the death, it came as a shock to them though he had been ill for a while.

A message posted on Facebook supposedly by one of his sons, Akwari, gave the period of his life as being between September 1942 to February 2012. 

He posted a moving epitaph thus: ”Not long ago a man we have all come to love, a man that has made us laugh, a friend to all but will always be Dad to my little sister Ugonma, my brothers Chiemela, Uche, Kelechi and me passed on. Chief James Udensi Akwari Iroha, OON, has passed on today. May his cheerful soul rest in the Lord.”