A 21-year-old 300 level student of the University of Lagos, Chidinma Adaora Ojukwu, on Thursday revealed that she stabbed her lover, Super TV CEO, Mr Usifo Ataga to death under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Miss Ojukwu spoke at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja on Thursday where she was paraded as a suspect by the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, who confirmed Chidinma is an undergraduate student of the University of Lagos.
She had confessed to committing the crime, Odumosu said.
Odumosu said Ojukwu was arrested at her parents’ residence in the Yaba area of the state on Wednesday night.
Miss Ojukwu, a 300-level student of Mass Communication, admitted she had been in a love relationship with Ataga, 50, for about four months before the ugly incident occurred on June 15, 2021, at a Short Service Apartment, situated at No 19, Adewale Oshin Street, Lekki, Phase 1, Lagos.
The undergraduate said she and Ataga were “having fun” when an argument broke out and she stabbed him twice.
“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,” she said.
“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, you are just playing with me around’. He was like, ‘Take my ATM and withdraw what you want’.”
Continuing, Chidinma said: “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.
“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.”
She further disclosed that after killing Ataga, she withdrew the sum of N380,000 from his account using his ATM card.
In earlier statements on the incident before Chidinma’s arrest, Odumosu said that while the owner of the rented apartment where the tragic incident took place had been arrested, Ataga’s accounts had been blocked to prevent further withdrawals by those taking advantage of his untimely death to deplete the accounts.
Odumosu added that investigation is ongoing, adding that “the case will be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded”.
