A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square on
Tuesday watched the video recording of the lifeless body of the Chief Executive
Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, allegedly murdered on June 15, 2021.
An undergraduate, Chidinma Ojukwu, and one Adedapo Quadri
are standing trial for Ataga’s murder.
They were arraigned alongside Ojukwu’s sister, Chioma
Egbuchu, accused of stealing Ataga’s iPhone 7.
Ataga’s body was seen in the video lying on the ground
facing up, with his hands spread.
He was wearing a white singlet and boxer’s pants stained
with blood.
His head was close to a wall at the short-service apartment
where he was allegedly murdered.
There was blood on the floor. Blood also stained the pillow
and duvet on the bed in the room.
In the same Compact Disc, a video showing Ojukwu narrating
how she murdered Ataga was played.
In the video, Ojukwu narrated that she met Ataga through a
friend.
She said that, on June 13, 2021, the deceased called her and
asked her to get a place for them to stay, and she got the short let service
apartment where the deceased died.
She said: “After I got the place on Sunday, we were smoking
loud, drinking, watching movies
“Then, I went to get food, the drug we were taking got
finished and I ordered another one and went downstairs to get it from the
delivery guy in the morning.”
The first defendant said the above-mentioned incident
occurred on June 14, 2021.
”Then, on Tuesday, we drank, smoke loud and I added Rophynol
to his drink. We had sex, and I was on the bed and he was on a chair.
“Later, he started disturbing me for more sex. I was tired,
and after struggling with him, he had his way and still wanted more.
“He was no longer himself, and I thought he was no more
interested in sex, only for him to return to the bed to ask for more.
“I pushed him away which resulted in his hitting his head
against a stool that had a glass, he had a cut on his leg and he became weak.”
Ojukwu said that she then took a knife and stabbed Ataga on
the neck, ribs and stomach, so he would not be able to harm her.
“I tied his hands with a handkerchief. His blood was out and
I was scared. I just packed everything, my clothes were also stained with
blood, I just packed my things and left.
“I took the knife and handkerchief, and when I got home, I
threw the knife and handkerchief away.
Michael was a friend. I didn’t know him that deeply, and we
didn’t talk regularly,” she said in the video clip.
When she was asked in the video if she was assisted in
killing the deceased, Ojukwu said, “There was nobody that assisted me, I did it
alone.”
When asked why she didn’t call for help, she said,
”Obviously I was scared, that was why I left.”
She said that there was no motive for killing Ataga.
In the video, the ninth prosecution witness in the murder
trial, DSP Olusegun Bamidele from the Intelligence and Tactical Unit of the
State Criminal Investigating Department, Panti Yaba, was seen in interrogating
Ojukwu at Panti.
He also asked her why she was using a foreign phone number
and the motive behind her hiding her phone number.
Ojukwu said that she already had a foreign number registered
on social media which she used to chat with people.
Asked why the owner of the service apartment didn’t know her
identity, she said, “She didn’t ask for my identification.
“If she had said that the place was not available I would
have left for another place.”
Ojukwu responded to a question in the video about why she
used Mary Johnson to open a bank account. She said that she was attempting to
open an account number which got blocked.
On an Identification card she procured, Ojukwu said, “It was
someone that did it and you can’t see his face.
“I don’t know the contact of the person. I was just going
through the internet and I saw a contact to call.”
She also said in the video that she opened a domiciliary
account for depositing dollars.
At this point, prosecution counsel, Adenike Oluwafemi,
reminded the witness of his evidence on May 10, when he said that he recovered
some items from the defendant’s house.
Bamidele responded by listing the things he allegedly
recovered from Ojukwu’s house.
He told Justice Yetunde Adesanya that he recovered a small
pink purse containing two syringes, eight pieces of Rophynol tablets, two
sanitary pads, a small perfume, jewelry, an iPhone belonging to first
defendant, a notebook, a diary, and a HP laptop.
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