Court Remands Chidinma Over Alleged Killing of Super TV CEO.
By Caroline ogwuche,
A magistrate court in Yaba, Lagos State has granted the request of the police to remand the alleged killer of super TV’s late CEO, Usifo Ataga.
The suspect, 21 year old Chidinma Ojukwu has therefore been renanded in prison for 30 days.
The state police command had brought the mass communication student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) before the court on Monday. Chidinma was arraigned alongside two other suspects.
Adeola Adedayo, the magistrate, however, ruled that the UNILAG student should be remanded in prison for 30 days.The media entrepreneur was stabbed to death and left in the pool of his own blood inside a Lagos hotel on June 15.
Chidinma was thereafter arrested in connection with the murder.
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Ms Ojukwu had earlier confessed to stabbing Ataga “twice on the neck side,” alleging that the businessman forcefully had sex with her.
“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,” she had said.
But in a dramatic twist, Chidinma denied her initial confession that she killed the Super TV CEO.
“I don’t know what happened when I left the room to buy food. Because of what I did after by not alerting the police and also withdrawing money from his account, I feel guilty for what happened but I did not kill him,” she had said.
Hakeem Odumosu, Lagos commissioner of police, later announced that more suspects have been arrested in the case.
The magistrate then adjourned the case to September 5 for the remand to be reviewed and also for legal advice from the directorate of public prosecution.
