Police Reportedly Arrest Father Of Suspected Killer Of Super TV CEO For Violently Resisting Her Arrest

By Edna Wande Last updated Jun 25, 2021

Arrested 21-Year-Old UNILAG Student Narrates How She Killed Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga — L-R: Suspect, 21-year-old UNILAG student, Chidinma Ojukwu’s and victim, Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga.

Officers of Lagos state police command arrested the father of Chidinma Adaora Ojukwu, who confessed to killing the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, it has emerged.

The 21-year-old lady is 300 level student of Mass Communication at the University of Lagos.

According to ThePunch, a top police source who spoke on condition of anonymity said Chidinma’s father was arrested for violently resisting the arrest of his daughter when the police visited their home on Wednesday, June 23, to pick her up.

The source added that the man did not believe that his daughter committed any crime until she confessed on Thursday, adding that he was being detained at State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba.

It stressed;

She (Chidinma) stays with her dad. Her dad and mom don’t live together. Her father was arrested on Wednesday because he resisted his daughter’s arrest. He never believed that his daughter committed any crime until Thursday. He is at Panti as we speak, but he was not paraded today (Thursday).

Meanwhile, lecturers and students of the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos, are reacting to the news of the murder.

The publication stated that a lecturer in the department, who spoke to on condition of anonymity said;

I know her (Chidinma) because of her beauty and innocent look. She is an introvert to the core. Left for her striking beauty, she is not likely to be noticed by anyone, because she doesn’t talk in class.

Another lecturer also confirmed that Chidinma is a 300-level student in the department, saying;

Yes, in our group chats, where there are several professors, it was confirmed that she is a 300-level part time student of Mass Communication, UNILAG.

One of the classmates, who also spoke anonymously expressed;

Yes, she (Chidinma) is a 300-level part time student of Mass Communication. I know her, but we are not on talking terms; she doesn’t interact with many people. She is a recluse.

She is a cool girl, who comes for lectures and leaves afterwards; she has few friends, who she talks to. I don’t really know much about her.

Another student said he had not seen her in the current semester, adding that their lectures could not hold on Thursday as the lecturers did not turn up.

He stated;

I have not seen her this semester since we resumed on May 10. We were supposed to have lectures today, but the lecturers did not come. Likewise, her issue has been a major topic on our WhatsApp platform; it was a chaotic debate as members took sides.

It would be recalled that while being paraded on Thursday, Chidinma confessed to withdrawing N380,000 from the deceased’s account to pay her school fees.

The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, had earlier said the 21-year-old undergraduate was tracked for 48 hours and was arrested at her parents’ residence in the Yaba area of the state on Wednesday.

He stated casual workers cleaning the building, where the incident took place, discovered Ataga’s remains in the service apartment.

Odumosu revealed;

The victim, one Usifo Michael Ataga, happened to operate a media house. The lady, Chidinma Ojukwu, 21, a 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, checked into the service apartment in Lekki with the man on a Sunday.

They were there together as friends, but on Tuesday, she departed and left the man inside. So, when the man did not come out on Tuesday and Wednesday, those who were evacuating the trash bins went in to do their normal duty and discovered that the door to the apartment was half opened.

He expressed;

When they entered, Ataga was found on the floor in a pool of blood. He wore only his pair of boxers. So, we started our investigation and we were able to track the prime suspect and got her arrested. She has confessed to the crime.

She said the drugs and alcohol that both of then took got them high and they were trying to have fun, but she resisted and the man insisted on having his way and that led to the fracas. She reached out for the kitchen knife and stabbed the man twice in the neck and once in the stomach. After he died, she took his belongings and fled.

Chidinma told newsmen that Ataga became violent after she turned down his request for more sex, adding that she stabbed him under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

When Ataga became weak, Chidinma noted that she fled the apartment and withdrew money from his account for her school fees.

She also debunked claims that she withdrew N5m saying;

I withdrew N380,000 and not N5m from his account. I feel a lot of remorse. I wanted to use the money I withdrew to pay my school fees. I felt disappointed when the police arrested me at my parents’ house and it was when I was arrested around 10pm that my parents got to know about the incident. I live with my parents; I left home on Sunday and told them that I was going for ushering job. I used the foreign number I generated in texting the owner of the apartment.

Exhibits recovered from Chidinma include;

A driving licence, complimentary cards, Access Bank’s statement of account, a Nigerian passport with number B50010434 belonging to the suspect, one fake driving licence bearing Mary Johnson with the suspect’s photograph, one National Identification card bearing the suspect’s name, UBA Automated Teller Machine debit card bearing the suspect’s name and a University of Lagos ID card in her name.