A 21-year-old scholar of the University of Lagos in Nigeria, Chidinma Adaora Ojukwu, has narrated how she stabbed the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, to death in the Lekki space of Lagos State.
Ataga, 50, was reported lacking on Sunday, June 13, by his household and buddies after he didn’t return house to Banana Island and likewise wasn’t seen at his Victoria Island workplace in Lagos. Read our previous report here.
Ojukwu confessed to the killing at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja on Thursday after she was paraded as a suspect by the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu.
Odumosu mentioned Ojukwu was arrested at her dad and mom’ residence in the Yaba space of the state on Wednesday evening.
The 300-level scholar of Mass Communication of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, mentioned she had been in a romantic relationship with Ataga, a married man with children, for about 4 months earlier than the ugly incident.
The Side Chick mentioned she and Ataga have been “having fun” when an argument broke out and he or she stabbed him two instances.
According to Chidinma Adaora Ojukwu, who hails from Arochukwu in Abia State Nigeria, “I met him about four months ago through a friend. But this was the first time we were staying together.”
Explaining additional, Chidinma mentioned: “He requested me to search on-line for a short-let condominium, I despatched it to him and he mentioned I ought to go test it out, which I did. He then paid for it. That was on sixteenth June, 2021.
“On Monday, we have been collectively, ingesting, smoking, we had enjoyable collectively, later I went out to get meals for each of us. Then on Tuesday, he was attempting to make advances at me, I used to be drained however he turned violent.
“Eventually, he bought his method, which I let him. Towards afternoon we ordered for a smoke collectively that was what we took. We ate meals, we turned excessive, I wasn’t blissful for the first one he did so I used to be sitting by myself.
“Smoking and ingesting with my meals. He was on the sofa, later he got here to me the place I sat watching tv and I instructed him I wasn’t pleased with what he did in the first one (intercourse). I instructed him, you don’t assist or help me however but you simply need to be enjoying with me round.
“He was like take my ATM card you may go and make withdraw what you need. He mentioned the pin. I used to be like that’s not what I imply, he turned violent, attempting to get to me and I used to be resisting and defending myself and sooner or later, he hit my head on the wall and I additionally retaliated. He was choking me once I was at the kitchen cupboard I lenned on, I stretched out to the knife and stabbed his neck.
“I tried severally to depart when he turned violent however he stopped me. Contrary to the hearsay that I collected 5 million from his account, it was solely N380,000.00 I withdrew from his account.
“I don’t have that kind of money in my account. I felt a lot after the incident even though I went home straight without reaching out to anyone. He was the one that gave me his ATM card and pin after I complained that he wasn’t taking care of me.”
“I wished to use the cash I withdrew from his account to pay my charges. He was the one which invited the drug man, he’s at all times having a smoke with him, so I don’t know if that was the first time.
“In the final 4 months I’ve identified him, we haven’t gone out like this, we simply met after which go to the home in Victoria Garden City.
“I felt disappointed when the police came to my parents’ house to arrest me. It was 9 pm when the police came and arrested me on Wednesday it was already very late. I live with my parents I told my parents that I was going for ushering job. I used to do freelance ushering jobs.”
She said additional that “I checked into the short-let condominium with a overseas quantity, not as a result of I had all of it deliberate out or I didn’t need to be traced.
“The foreign number was what I used in contacting the lady that is in charge of renting out the short let apartment. I used an app to generate the foreign number.”
Parading the suspect, the Commissioner of Police Lagos State Command, Hakeem Odumosu, mentioned on the fifteenth of June, 2021 the suspect, “Chidinma, checked right into a service condominium in Lekki with the deceased Michael Ataga; they have been there collectively as buddies on Tuesday, she left the facility with the man inside.
“When the man didn’t come out on Tuesday, and Wednesday, the staff in cost of evacuating trash bins went in to perform their regular responsibility and found that the condominium was a bit opened after they bought in they found the sufferer in the pool of his blood together with his underwear solely.
“That was the starting of the police investigation. Fortunately, on Wednesday, detectives have been in a position to monitor her and bought her arrested. She has confessed to committing the offense.
“She lower off the artery that provides blood by way of the neck, and likewise on his abdomen. She apparently modified and left him there on Tuesday. The corpse wasn’t found till Wednesday when police evacuated and commenced the investigation.
“She additionally disappeared with the sufferer’s ATM card which she claimed he gave to her voluntarily alongside with the pin which she went additional to make withdrawals.
“He has been in a position to recuperate his driver’s license, complimentary playing cards, her baggage, garments, and a few private results that the man got here with.
“Also, the clothes she wore while the fight was ongoing which was fully soaked with the man’s stained blood were recovered.”
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