The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 21-year-old lady, Chidinma Ojukwu, for allegedly killing the Chief Executive Officer, Super TV, Usifo Ataga, in the Lekki area of the state.
The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, said Chidinma Ojukwu is a 300 level student of Mass Communication of the university; adding that she had confessed to committing the crime.
Chidinma was paraded at the police command headquarters in Ikeja on Thursday. She said, she had been in a romantic relationship with Ataga for about four months before the ugly incident.
She said; “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 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.
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, and you are just playing with me around’. He was like, ‘Take my ATM and withdraw what you want’.
Ojukwu said she and Ataga were “having fun” when an argument broke out and she stabbed him twice.
“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.”
The undergraduate also disclosed that after stabbing the late CEO, she withdrew N380,000 from his account using his ATM card.
The police confirmed that the owner of the rented apartment where the tragic incident took place has been arrested, and Ataga’s accounts blocked to prevent further withdrawals by those taking advantage of his untimely death to deplete the account.