Chidinma Backtracks, Says She Didn’t Kill Super TV Boss
Chidinma Backtracks, Says She Didn’t Kill Super TV Boss
LAGOS – Chidinma Ojukwu, the 21-year-old Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, who allegedly agreed to have stabbed the CEO of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, to death has denied killing him.
The suspected killer in a latest confession few weeks after accepting responsibility for his death said she knows nothing about the death of the late CEO.
Earlier, when paraded before journalists by the police after her arrest, Chidinma had confessed to killing Ataga.
Chidinma had allegedly been in a romantic relationship with the 50-year-old Ataga for about four months before the incident.
The undergraduate, in her confessional statement when she was paraded, said she and Ataga were “having fun” when an argument broke out and she stabbed him twice.
The suspect, in a recent interview with Crime Fighters, said she admitted to killing Ataga at the time because of pressure and the fact that nobody believed her.
She also claimed she had met the deceased in a pool of his blood when she returned from where she had gone to get food and drugs for two of them.
“I didn’t involve anybody. I don’t know who must have come into the apartment. Definitely, somebody did that but I don’t know who that person is”, she said.
She added that she decided to take the blame initiative because she was scared.
“I don’t know what happened when I left the room to buy food. I feel guilty for what happened because I did not alert the police after and also for withdrawing money from his account, I feel guilty for what happened but I did not kill him.
“I believe someone knew where we were and waited till I left before they entered. Due to pressure and insistence of the security operatives that nobody entered the room apart from the two, I resolved that since no one believed me, let me just take the blame.
“No one is influencing my statements. I have not spoken to anyone since my arrest, not even my relation or anybody close to me.
“I just withdrew the money because he had already promised me, it’s not like I had anything to do with his death. I don’t have anything to do with his death,” she said.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said the video where the alleged killer, Chidinma, changed her narrative is an old video.
However, the suspect was seen in a new clothing and wore make-up in the video where she denied the allegation of killing the Super TV CEO contrary to how she looked when she was paraded by the police.
Since the release of the video, it has continued to generate controversies from the public.