Chiemelie Ezeobi
A 21-year-old undergraduate of the University of Lagos, Chidinma Adaora Ojukwu, has narrated how she stabbed the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Mr. Usifo Ataga, to death in the Lekki area of Lagos State.
She spoke at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja yesterday after she was paraded as a suspect by the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu.
Odumosu said Chidinma was arrested at her parents’ residence in the Yaba area of the state on Wednesday night.
The suspect, who was paraded at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja, confessed to the crime, adding that the scuffle that led to his death was because the deceased had allegedly forced her for another bout after several rounds of sex.
The 300-level student of Mass Communication was said to have stabbed him severally during the scuffle, tied him up and left him to bleed to death.
She then proceeded to take his ATM cards, his phones and laptop.
The suspect formatted the laptop and sold it at Computer Village before the police arrested her.
Chidinma said she had been in a romantic relationship with Ataga for about four months before the ugly incident.
The suspect said she and Ataga were “having fun” when an argument broke out and she stabbed him twice.
“We were in the lodge smoking. He was trying to make advances on me. I was tired and he became violent on it. I let him have his way. Towards afternoon, he ordered roofies. We took it together and ate food. He became high. I was still not happy with the first one (sex) that we had. So, I was staying on my own, smoking and drinking. He, too, was on his own.
“He came to me and I was like I am not happy with what he did. I was like, ‘You don’t help me, you don’t assist me with anything, you are just playing with me around’. He was like, ‘Take my ATM and withdraw what you want’.
“He later became violent trying to get to me and I was resisting and defending myself. At some point, he hit my
head on the wall and I also retaliated.
“At some point, he was chasing me around the kitchen cabinet. I took a knife and stabbed his neck. I approached the door and he followed me. I stabbed him twice on the neck side. I threw the knife to the bed and he was going for it but I also went for
it.”
“He dragged the knife with me and it broke and he fell on the floor.”
The undergraduate also disclosed that after stabbing the late CEO, she withdrew N380,000 from his account using his ATM card.
Odumosu said efforts were ongoing to apprehend and cause other culprits involved in the heinous crime to face the full weight of the law and justice done in the matter.
According to him, the suspect had conspired with others, now at large, to murder Ataga.
He said part of the exhibits recovered were one drivers’ licence, complimentary cards, Access Bank Statement of Account and one Nigeria International Passport with No.B50010434 belonging to the suspect, one fake driver’s licence bearing Mary Johnson with the suspect’s photograph.
