The Nigerian police are parading and currently questioning a 21-year-old Lagos State University student who goes by the name Chidinma Ojukwu over the death of Micheal Usifo Ataga, the CEO of SuperTV at a restaurant. She reportedly stabbed the married man twice on the neck and ones on the tummy before fleeing the scene.
So what really happened?
After a detailed investigation, the 21 one-year-old lady known as Chidinma Adaora Ojukwu was picked up by the police at her parent’s home in Lagos a week after the Murder. She was paraded and allowed to be questioned by the media on June 24.
According to the murder suspect Chidinma, said she was introduced to Mr Ataga by her friend four months ago. She mentioned that on the day of the incident, she told her parents that she was going for an ushering job for the week but went on to meet with the man in a hotel instead.
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She told newsmen that while in the apartment, they were taking drugs called ‘’loud and SK’’ but they started arguing when she refused to have sex with the CEO.
She narrated how she refused his advances again in the Kitchen where he slammed her head onto a wall and tried to chock her and that was when she managed to grab a kitchen knife and stabbed him before she fled the apartment.
Chidinma said she went home and later withdrew N380, 000 from his account with the intention of using it to pay her school fees.
Chidinma while being paraded by the police, kept saying Ataga became violent after she turned down his request for more sex, adding that she stabbed him under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
“I checked for the place we lodged in online on Sunday and sent the details to him and he paid. On Monday, we were together drinking and smoking, we had fun and so I went to get food. On Tuesday, he was trying to make advances at me, but I was tired and he became violent and forced his way and I gave in.
In the afternoon, we smoked and ate. We became high and I wasn’t happy with the first round of sex; so, I was on my own smoking, drinking and eating my food when he came to me, while I was watching a movie.
“I told him I was not happy with what he did the first time. I told him he was not assisting me with anything, but was playing around with me. He told me to take his ATM card and withdraw any amount I wanted and gave me the PIN, but I told him that was not what I meant.
So, he became violent; I was defending myself and at some point, he hit my head on the wall and I retaliated. He was choking me and I was on the kitchen cabinet, so I stretched out and grabbed a knife and stabbed him twice in the neck and once in the stomach.”
She said when Ataga became weak, she fled the apartment and withdrew money from his account for her school fees.
“We smoked SK and Loud. While he was lying there, I changed my cloth, looked for the key from where he kept it, and left the room. When I left, I didn’t reach out to anybody. I didn’t feel good about what I did.
I withdrew N380,000 and not N5m from his account. I feel a lot of remorse. I wanted to use the money I withdrew to pay my school fees. I felt disappointed when the police arrested me at my parents’ house and it was when I was arrested around 10pm that my parents got to know about the incident.
I live with my parents; I left home on Sunday and told them that I was going for ushering job. I used the foreign number I generated in texting the owner of the apartment.”she said
A CCTV footage of University of Lagos student, Chidinma Ojukwu and SuperTV CEO, Usifo Ataga at a restaurant before she allegedly took his life has also surfaced.The video footage showed them at the restaurant and also captured when they left the facility.
USIFO ATADA FAMILY
Michael Usifo Ataga is the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, and a director in Super Network Limited. Ataga, who would have turned 50 on June 18 resides in Banana Island, was reported missing. Sadly his lifeless body was found on Friday morning, June 18 in a flat in Lekki phase 1 with multiple stab wounds.
Ataga, who is married to Brenda Ataga, a manager in Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. She had previously served as the Special Adviser on Downstream and Infrastructure between 2015 and 2019.
She is a Mid/Downstream Commercial Strategist with over 15 years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry and a 2018 Nominee of the prestigious Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu Fellowship.
Brenda also founded and seats on the board of a not-for-profit charity organization — True Foundation — which focuses on community and human capacity training for Women and Youths in barrios and IDP camps.
Micheal Ataga’s was an amateur boxer and reportedly very strong so his death has come as a shock to friends.
POLICE INVESTIGATION
The Commissioner of Police in Lagos state, Hakeem Odumosu, says 21-year-old UNILAG student, Chidinma Adaora Ojukwu, conspired with some other persons who are currently now at large to carry out the killing of Michael Usifo Ataga.
A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Odumosu disclosed this while parading the suspect.
He said;
A case of murder was transferred from Maroko Division of the Command to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti Yaba, for discreet investigation.
The fact of the case is that, on 15/06/21 at about 1700hrs, one Chidimma Adaora Ojukwu, a 300 level, undergraduate of the University of Lagos, conspired with others, now at Large, and allegedly murdered one Michael Usifo Ataga, m, 50, by stabbing him severally with a sharp object at a Short Service Apartment, situated at No 19, Adewale Oshin Street, Lekki, phase 1, Lagos.
The prime suspect, Chidinma, who had earlier booked for the apartment on 13/6/21 secretly, left the apartment after the deed had been done on 15/6/21 at about 1730hrs.
The suspect was tracked and arrested in her residence at №57, Akinwunmi Street, Alagomeji, Yaba-Lagos. During the search, the prime suspect and Mass Communication Student of the University of Lagos was caught with a blood-soaked cloth, ostensibly worn on the day of the incident.
The suspect confessed to have stabbed the deceased with a kitchen knife after a struggle. She further confessed to have taken the knife away while leaving the scene and disposed same in a dust bin at her residence.
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It has also been revealed that the suspect equally stole the deceased iPhone.
The investigation is ongoing to arrest other accomplices.
However, the Case will be charged to court as soon as the investigation is concluded.’’Odumosu quoted the CP
So this story has sparked a lot of conversations. Some are saying What is an almost 50 year old Married man doing with a 21 year old undergraduate.
Others are saying it was a staged Case of Murder
While a whole different set of people are saying, the young lady set it up from the beginning.
Where some believe it’s a case of Self Defence.
What are your thoughts? Does she need a lawyer?
Let us know in the comment section down below.
