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The trial of Chidinma Ojukwu, the key suspect to the murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga continued at the Lagos High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square on November 8 with a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Olusegun Bamidele, informing the court that Chidinma was having a sexual relationship with her foster father, Onoh Ojukwu.
Bamidele who is serving with the homicide department of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti Yaba, made this disclosure while being cross-examined by Chidinma’s lawyer, Mr Onwuka Egwu, during a trial within trial to determine the voluntarism of her confessional statements.
Chidinma Ojukwu, was a 300-level Mass Communication undergraduate, now standing trial alongside Adedapo Quadri who was alleged to have conspired with her to murder Ataga, her lover, on June 15, 2021, by stabbing him several times with a knife on the neck and chest.
A third defendant, her sister, Chioma Egbuchu, is charged with receiving a stolen iPhone 7 belonging to the late Ataga. At the last sitting of the court, Bamidele who is the ninth prosecution witness had told the court how Chidinma transferred the sum of N5m, on June 15, 2021 from Usifo Ataga’s account to another account. He had also told Justice Yetunde Adesanya how the handwritten statement of Chidinma was taken and how the second and third defendants were arrested.
When the prosecution sought to admit the written statements of the defendants, Chidinma’s counsel, Egwu, objected to the admissibility of the document. He said that the statements were obtained by oppression, inducement intimidation and under duress and urged the court to conduct a trial within trial to determine its voluntarism.
