Chidinma Ojukwu, the suspected killer of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, on Tuesday made a U-turn when she told Justice Yetunde Adesanya of the High Court of Lagos State in Tafawa Balewa Square, that she does not know the person that killed the deceased CEO.
Speaking during the resumed watching of the recorded video footage of Ojukwu before the trial court, Ojukwu argued that she does not know who killed Ataga, having stepped out of the apartment where they had both lodged.
While adding that on returning to the apartment, Ataga was already in the pool of his blood and that she had quickly picked up her things and left because she was scared, Ojukwu said: “I don’t know who entered, I just picked my things and left because I was scared.”
On October 11, 2022, when the recorded video footage was first played, showing the lifeless body of Ataga and later Ojukwu’s confession, Ojukwu had said in the video that she killed the deceased on her own.
Specifically in the video, Ojukwu revealed that “There was nobody that assisted me, I did it alone.”
She was arraigned alongside two others; Adedapo Quadri and Chioma Egbuchu on October 12, 2021, on a nine-count charge bordering on the alleged murder of Ataga as slammed against them by the Lagos State Government.
Ojukwu and Quadri are answering questions to the first to eight counts bordering on conspiracy, murder, stabbing, forgery, making of bank statements and stealing, while the third defendant, Egbuchu, is answering questions to the ninth count of receiving a stolen iPhone 7 belonging to the late Ataga.
Ojukwu and Quadri were specifically alleged to have conspired and murdered Ataga on June 15, 2021, by stabbing him several times with a knife on the neck and chest at 19, Adewale Oshin Street, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos.
Ojukwu, while being interrogated in the video as to why she denied knowing the deceased, stated that she didn’t say so but that she didn’t kill Ataga.
“I did not say that I didn’t know him, I said I did not kill him, I cannot kill somebody.
“I don’t know who came in after I left the room. When I came back, I saw him bleeding. I had to leave because I was scared. I did not kill him, I don’t know who killed him,” she insisted.
The 300-level student of Mass Communication at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) who posited that she could not call for help when she saw Ataga in the pool of his blood because she was scared, maintained that it was the deceased who ordered for ‘Loud Smoke’ and Rohypnol, adding that she did not know where the hard drugs were ordered from, with a further position that she had only gone to pick same.
On why she picked Ataga’s two iPhones and Mac Laptop, Ojukwu explained that she just picked them because they were among her things and that she had left because she was scared.
The matter has been adjourned until October 20, 2022, for the continuation of trial.
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