The police operatives investigating the murder of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, have learnt that the prime suspect, Chidinma Ojukwu, used a fake name ‘Jewel’ to book the short let apartment where Ataga was killed on Adebowale Oshin Street, Lekki Phase I, Lagos.
According to the Punch, the operatives also learnt that calls placed to the phone number with which 21-year-old Ojukwu booked the apartment did not go through after Ataga’s body was discovered in the room on Wednesday, June 16.
Recall that Chidinma was later tracked down by police operatives and arrested at her father’s house at Alagomeji, Yaba.
She confessed to killing the CEO after he became violent when she resisted his overtures for more rounds of sex.
She confessed to withdrawing the sum of N380,000 from the victim’s account with his ATM card.
The police gathered that Chidinma actually invited the late Ataga to 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 facility operator, Mrs Nkechi Mogbo, consequently reported the matter to the police.
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.”
