Chidinma Ojukwu, a 21-year-old undergraduate of the University of Lagos, has confessed that she stabbed the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, but claimed he had given her his ATM card to withdraw “any amount” before the incident.
Ojukwu admitted to killing the amateur boxer when she spoke at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja after she was paraded as a suspect by the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu on Thursday.
According to Odumosu, the 300 level student of Mass Communication was arrested at her parents residence in the Yaba area of the state on Wednesday night.
What actually happened, according to Ojukwu,
“I have been in a romantic relationship with Ataga for about four months before the ugly incident. We were having fun when an argument broke out and I 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,” Chidinma narrated.
The undergraduate also disclosed that after stabbing the late CEO, she withdrew N380,000 from his account using his ATM card.
What you should know about the murder
Ataga, who resides in Banana Island, was reported missing on Sunday by concerned friends and family after all efforts to reach him proved abortive. Checks at his Victoria Island office showed he wasn’t there either and this put everyone in a panic mode including his wife and children who reside in Abuja.
His lifeless body was later found in a flat in Lekki phase 1 with multiple stable wounds after several withdrawals were made from his account.
Chidinma is not saying the whole truth. Why didnt her fight mr ataga imediatly after the first rape. I think those stab she gave the man wasnt due to sex refusal but dragging the atm to go for the money which ataga unintentionally gave the pin out of his drunken state and for the fact that he was carried away by chidinma innocent face. She felt ataga wont fulfill his promise when he become sober therefore killing him would give her free acces to the man money which she didnt hesitate to withdraw knowing the money is more important to her compared to the man’s life. Chidinma should be killed likewise so she can also experience a painful death like she did to mr ataga. If it was drug or alchohol as she claim why didnt her forget the atm pin the man gave her.
Chidinma story is fake she is a criminal, murderer and a prostitute. Let her be killed. Mr ataga didnt mean any harm that was why she succeeded in stabbing the man if not how dare she kill a grown man without the man fighting back? How dare she stab a man severally without any would in her body ? Let face the law and stop telling bull stories.
Chidinma is a criminal a murder,but what brought Ataga the TV boss to a protutuse house let think before saing something, she did wrong but we have to think about it.