A police officer identified as Olusegun Bamidele says
Chidinma Ojukwu‘s cloths were stained with blood the day Usifo Ataga, Super TV
CEO, died.
Bamidele, who is the ninth prosecution witness, told the
court that the defendant confessed to committing the crime during
interrogation.
Chidinma is standing trial for the alleged murder of Ataga
who died on June 15, 2021.
She is charged with murder, stealing, and forgery alongside
Chioma Egbuchu, her sister, and one Adedapo Quadri.
Bamidele testified on Tuesday before a Lagos state high
court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS).
The officer, who is a deputy superintendent of police (DSP)
serving with the homicide unit of the state criminal Investigating department
(SCID) Yaba, was led in evidence by Adenike Oluwafemi, the Lagos state deputy
director of public prosecution.
He said the cloth worn by the University of Lagos (UNILAG)
undergraduate on the day Ataga was killed was discovered during a search at her
residence.
“After we tracked her to her home in Alagomeji and brought
her to the DCP’s office, she was asked about her relationship with the
deceased,” he said.
“She denied it initially and this prompted us to deploy the
CCTV. She then agreed that she is the Chidinma Adaora Ojukwu we were looking
for.
“We then took her in company of her foster father, one Onoh
Ojukwu, back to the house in Alagomeji where we initially arrested her. We
conducted a search of the house in their presence.”
The search, the officer said, yielded a maroon-coloured
cloth worn by Chidinma the day Ataga was killed.
“The cloth was
stained with blood. Then Onoh Ojukwu shouted, ‘Chidinma, you have killed me,
you have done something wrong outside. Chidinma was also crying,” he added.
“We also recovered the black/blue long-sleeved gown she wore
when she left the apartment in Lekki. This further established that she has
something to do with the deceased.”
The policeman said Chidinma recollected that she made a call
to Adedapo Quadri, the second defendant, who helped her source hard drugs which
she and Ataga smoked.
Bamidele also said while questioning Chidinma and recording
her statement, she said: “She knew the deceased, that they met at a hangout in
Victoria Island. The deceased was introduced to her by her friend’s boyfriend.
She mentioned the friend as Fiyin and the boyfriend as Tony. She said the
relationship started in February and after a while, they developed sexual
relations.
“I remember she
mentioned a date, 12th June 2021. She received a call from the deceased that
they needed to see and go out. Based on the request, she sourced the apartment.
“She confessed that shortly after she arrived at the
apartment, on the 13th, the deceased drove in, in his Range Rover. On his
arrival, she said they were both hungry and drove out to eat and returned to
the apartment, watched the film, and conversed leading up to sex. They also
engaged in smoking. On the 14th, they did the same thing.
“She said she initially came in with the loud smoke. That’s
the name she called it. After they finished it, they needed more. She
recollected that she made a call to the second defendant, Quadri who helped her
source for the loud and another drug called Rohypnol. She also mentioned that
the items were brought in through a dispatch rider to the apartment.
“She described Adedapo Quadri as someone introduced to her
by a friend. That Dapo supplied the drugs to her. The IPO asked her about the
potency of the drugs. She responded that a tablet is enough to knock out
whoever uses it while loud is a cigarette light smoke.
“She said on the
15th, after engaging in smoking, the deceased asked for more sex, which she
denied him. The deceased went to the chair to relax and she thought he was no
more interested in sex, only for him to return to the bed to ask for more sex.
She said she pushed him away, which resulted in him knocking her head against a
stool that had a glass.
“Having sustained injury on the head and knees, there was a
struggle between them and she said she managed to lay hands on a kitchen knife
with which she stabbed the deceased on the neck twice. She confessed that she
stabbed him severally without counting and the deceased eventually fell to the
floor in the room.”
The case was adjourned till May 12.
Ataga was stabbed to death and left in the pool of his own
blood inside a Lagos hotel.
Chidinma was thereafter arrested in connection with the
murder.
The student had earlier confessed to stabbing Ataga “twice
on the neck side.”
But in a dramatic twist, Chidinma denied her initial
confession that she killed the Super TV CEO.
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