Female student killer of Super TV CEO arrested by Lagos Police

By Ezurike Ugochukwu

The suspected killer of Super TV CEO, Mr. Usifo Ataga, has been apprehended by the Lagos State Police Command.

The suspect, Chidinma Adaora Ojukwu, a 21-year-old 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), was alleged to have stabbed Ataga on his neck and stomach.

The incident happened on Tuesday June 15, 2021 at No 19, Adewale Oshin Street, Lekki, phase 1, Lagos.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu paraded the suspect at the State Police command in Ikeja on Thursday,

According to Odumosu, a case of murder was transferred from Maroko Division of the Command to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti Yaba, for discreet investigation.

Odumosu said: “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 resident at No. 57, Akinwunmi Street, Alagomeji, Yaba-Lagos.

“During 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.

“It has also been revealed that the suspect equally stole the deceased iPhone.”

Recounting the incident, Chidinma said that she stabbed her lover, Usifo Ataga to death under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

She said: “We have been in a romantic relationship for about four months. We were smoking in a lodge apartment. He made advances towards me and I resisted because I was too tired but he wouldn’t want to hear any of that.

“Consequently, he turned violent and strangled me on my neck, so I gave up. I let him have his way. Later in the afternoon, he ordered roofies. We took it together and ate food. He became high.

“Meanwhile, I was still not happy with the sex he forcefully had with me in the morning, so, I withdrew from him. I kept a distance from him, smoking and drinking. It was when I was high that I stabbed him twice on his neck and later in his stomach for forcefully having his way with me.”

Exhibits recovered from the suspect as presented by CP Odumosu are: One driver’s license, complimentary cards, Access Bank Statement of Account, one Nigeria International Passport with No. B50010434 belonging to the suspect, one fake Driver’s license bearing Mary Johnson with the suspect’s photograph, one National Identification Card bearing the suspect’s name, one UBA ATM debit card bearing the suspect’s name and one University of Lagos ID card bearing the suspect’s name.

Odumosu said that further investigation is ongoing to arrest other accomplices, and that the case will be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.