Chidinma Makes U-Turn, Debunks Killing Ataga
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 Chidinma Makes U-Turn, Debunks Killing Ataga

A Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Lagos Island today resumed watching the recorded video footage made to the police by Chidinma Ojukwu, the suspect in the alleged murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga. CHANNELS reports.Information Guide Nigeria

Contrary to her account in one of the recorded videos earlier played at the last court sitting before Justice Yetunde Adesanya, Chidinma in the new video denied killing the deceased.

Chidinma had also in July 2021 said contrary to her initial statements that she had stabbed Ataga as a way of self-defense, she had nothing to do with his death.

In the new video, Chidinma distanced herself from her earlier narration where she detailed how she committed the offence.

She claimed in the new recording that she did not know who killed the deceased as she had left him alone to go out on the Tuesday he was murdered.

She also claimed that by the time she got back, she saw Ataga’s body on the floor, she panicked, picked her things and left because she was scared.

She said, “I don’t know who entered I just picked my things and left because I was scared.”

At the last adjourned date on October 11, 2022, when the first video recording was played, Ataga’s lifeless body was first beamed on the court screen and Chidinma who was later seen in the video narrated to police officers how she killed the deceased on her own.

In the video, she had said, “There was nobody that assisted me, I did it alone.”

Chidinma’s counsel, C.C. Ezebube had objected to the playing and the admissibility of the video. He told the court that his client was coerced to make the initial confessional video but the court overruled him and has now admitted both videos in evidence.

While being interrogated in the new video, Chidinma was asked why she initially denied knowing the deceased, she said she didn’t say so but also said that she didn’t kill him.

“I did not say that I didn’t know him, I said I did not kill him, I can not kill somebody.”

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When a member of the team that interrogated her in the video asked why she said the blood stains on her clothes was her period, she kept saying that she 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.”

Asked why she did not call for help when she saw him in a pool of his blood, she responded that it was because she was scared.

She was also asked why she ordered for Loud smoke and Rophynol, the defendant answered that it was the deceased that ordered for it and that she doesn’t know where he ordered it from as she just went to pick it.

The defendant was also asked why she picked the deceased’s two Iphones and Mac Laptop, she said she just picked them because they were among her things and left because she was scared.

After watching the video, the court also listened to more testimony from the ninth prosecution witness, DSP Olusegun Bamidele from the Intelligence and Tactical Unit of the State Criminal Investigating Department Panti Yaba.Jamb Result 

Led in evidence by the Lagos State prosecuting counsel Yusuf Sule, the witness narrated how the hand written statement of the first defendant (Chidinma) was taken and how the second (Quadri) and third defendants (Egbuchu) were arrested.

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Essien, Goodnews is a gruaduate of Communication Arts, University of Uyo, Uyo; Currently working at Infoguide Media as a news writer.

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