Chidinma Ojukwu, who was alleged to have killed the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga has denied the claim at a Lagos High Court sitting on Tuesday.
The claim was made in a confessional video that was played before Justice Yetunde Adesanya.
In the Video, the University of Lagos undergraduate denied knowing who killed the deceased.
According to her, she had gone out on the day of the incident, and upon returning, she met Ataga on the floor, so, she packed her belongings and left out of fear.
Ojukwu said, “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.”
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However, this is contrary to her previous confession which was played at the last court proceedings on October 11, 2022, where she admitted to killing the deceased on her own.
“There is nobody that assisted me, I did it alone,” She said in the video.
In the Video recording played before the court, the defendant was asked why she denied knowing the deceased, and she said she didn’t deny knowing Ataga but 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,” she said.
The Defendant was asked why she ordered for Loud and Rophynol, the defendant responded that it was the deceased that ordered them and that she doesn’t know where he ordered them from.
The ninth prosecution witness DSP Olusegun Bamidele from the Intelligence and Tactical Unit of the State Criminal Investigating Department Panti Yaba, while being led in evidence by the Lagos State prosecuting counsel, Yusuf Sule, gave information of how the handwritten statement of the first defendant was taken and how the second and third defendants were arrested shortly after the video stopped playing.
“She started writing by herself, but because her handwriting wasn’t eligible, I told her that she should ensure that her writing was legible or write in capital letters. It was at that point that she said I should write for her and she confessed to killing the deceased.
“She also mentioned how she killed Michael Usifo Ataga and went away with the knife, phones and Macbook laptop. We took the first defendant to Computer Village with her laptop and we located the phone hub.”
“I and my OC went and we met one Yomi, we invited him but he insisted on not knowing what happened so I hinted him, when he came to our office, we gave him the whole details and he said it was a few days ago that the first defendant came to sell the laptop to them, and it was one of his colleagues Ifeoluwa Oluwo that they did the transactions together.
That was how the Mac book was recovered and the first defendant confessed that she was the one who sold the laptop to them,” Bamidele said.
Justice Adesanya adjourned till October 20, 2022, for the continuation of the trial.