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Confession: How I killed Super TV boss - Chidinma

AFNews Reporter

Oct 12, 2022

A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square on Tuesday watched the video recording of the lifeless body of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, allegedly murdered on June 15, 2021.

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An undergraduate, Chidinma Ojukwu, and one Adedapo Quadri are standing trial for Ataga's murder.

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They were arraigned alongside Ojukwu's sister, Chioma Egbuchu, accused of stealing Ataga's iPhone 7.

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Ataga's body was seen in the video lying on the ground facing up, with his hands spread.

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He was wearing a white singlet and boxer's pants stained with blood.

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His head was close to a wall at the short-service apartment where he was allegedly murdered.

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There was blood on the floor. Blood also stained the pillow and duvet on the bed in the room.

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In the same Compact Disc, a video showing Ojukwu narrating how she murdered Ataga was played.

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In the video, Ojukwu narrated that she met Ataga through a friend.

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She said that, on June 13, 2021, the deceased called her and asked her to get a place for them to stay, and she got the short let service apartment where the deceased died.

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She said: "After I got the place on Sunday, we were smoking loud, drinking, watching movies

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"Then, I went to get food, the drug we were taking got finished and I ordered another one and went downstairs to get it from the delivery guy in the morning."

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The first defendant said the above-mentioned incident occurred on June 14, 2021.

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"Then, on Tuesday, we drank, smoke loud and I added Rophynol to his drink. We had sex, and I was on the bed and he was on a chair.

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Ojukwu responded to a question in the video about why she used Mary Johnson to open a bank account. She said that she was attempting to open an account number which got blocked.

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On an Identification card she procured, Ojukwu said, "It was someone that did it and you can't see his face.

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"I don't know the contact of the person. I was just going through the internet and I saw a contact to call."

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She also said in the video that she opened a domiciliary account for depositing dollars.

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At this point, prosecution counsel, Adenike Oluwafemi, reminded the witness of his evidence on May 10, when he said that he recovered some items from the defendant's house.

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Bamidele responded by listing the things he allegedly recovered from Ojukwu's house.

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He told Justice Yetunde Adesanya that he recovered a small pink purse containing two syringes, eight pieces of Rophynol tablets, two sanitary pads, a small perfume, jewelry, an iPhone belonging to first defendant, a notebook, a diary, and a HP laptop.

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The witness listed the other items to including an identity card with the name: Ojukwu Chidinma Adora; Ataga's driver's licence, Ojukwu's United Bank for Africa automated teller machine card and Super net identity card in Ataga's name.

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Other items, according to the witness, are three other cards that had the deceased's name and six blank complimentary cards.

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After identifying the items, Oluwafemi prayed the court to admit them in evidence.

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However, Ojukwu's counsel, Mr C.C. Ezebube, objected to the admissibility of the items.

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Ezebube said that the custody of the items was not specified before the court - from the moment of recovery to that of tendering them before the court.

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He said, "Some of the items could have been picked from anywhere, there is no originality as these items can be reproduced from anywhere.

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Quadri's counsel, Mr Babatunde Busari, and Egbuchu's counsel, F.O. Ilesunmi, did not object to the tendering of the items in evidence.

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