21-year-old student of the University of Lagos, Chidinma Ojukwu, the alleged killer of SUPER TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, reportedly used the name ‘Jewel’ to book the short let apartment on Adebowale Oshin Street, Lekki Phase I, Lagos, where Ataga was stabbed to death.
This is according to preliminary police report, which also revealed that several calls placed to the phone number with which Chidinma booked the apartment didn’t go through after Ataga’s body was discovered in the room on Wednesday, June 16.
It was also gathered that the 300-level Mass Communication student checked into the hotel using a foreign phone number.
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that the 21-year-old had confessed to have stabbed Ataga to death while trying to defend herself when the deceased reportedly became violent and wanted to have his way with her.
“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 confessed that after stabbing the late CEO, she withdrew N380,000 from his account using his ATM card.
The preliminary police investigation stated that Chidinma invited the late Ataga into the apartment on Tuesday, June 15, while the man was found dead around 1pm the following day by a worker who wanted to clean the room.
The report read in part, “Mogbo reported that around 3pm of June 16, 2021, she received a call from her security guard on Adebowale Oshin Street, Lekki Phase I where she has one flat being used as a short let apartment. She further stated that the security man informed her that one Jewel with a foreign phone number who rented the apartment invited one Usifo Ataga to the apartment yesterday (June 15) and that about 1pm of June 16 when the cleaner wanted to clean the room, he discovered that the door had been broken.
“When she (the cleaner) peeped into the room, she discovered that the said Ataga was lying in a pool of blood. All calls put across to the said Jewel to come back to the apartment proved abortive.”