In her ongoing trial, Chidinma Ojukwu, the university undergraduate and prime suspect in the murder of Michael Usifo Ataga, the CEO of Super TV, has begun responding to questions.
Ojukwu told the Lagos State High Court in Tafa Balewa Square that she had never discussed Ataga’s death with Quadri while Babatunde Busari’s attorney, Adedapo Quadri, was addressing questions from him.
Ojukwu testified that Quadri’s involvement in the production of her school identity card was the only thing he had to deal with: the supply of Loud, a type of cannabis, Rohypnol, and his assistance in producing her identity card.
“About the death of Mr. Ataga, I never had a conversation with Adedapo Quadri.”
The only transactions we ever engaged in were for the purchase of Loud and Rohypnol. He also assisted me in getting my school ID card, Ojukwu said.
On June 15, 2021, Ojukwu and Quadri are accused of conspiring to murder Ataga by repeatedly stabbing him in the neck and chest at No. Adewale Oshin Street, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, is where it is 19
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The Lagos State government has brought eight counts against them that relate to conspiracy, murder, and stabbing.
Chioma Egbuchu, Chioma Egbuchu’s sister, was charged with possessing an iPhone 7 that Usifo Ataga had stolen in count nine.
On October 12, 2021, the defendants were set to be detained.
At the resumed trial hearing on Monday, Quadri’s lawyer, Busari, cross-examined Ojukwu, who claimed Quadri had no knowledge of her involvement with Ataga at the Lekki apartment complex where the incident took place.
She said, “Quarri didn’t know anything about the incident at the apartment between me and Mr. Ataga.”
He never came to visit me there throughout my stay. After Ataga claimed that he only had one stick of Loud left, “she continued, I only called him to supply Loud and Rohypnol.”
Ojukwu acknowledged leaving the apartment with a brown envelope that included Ataga’s and one Mary Johnson’s personal records.
When she said, “I took the brown envelope when I was leaving the apartment.”
She confirmed that the items contained “Mr. Ataga’s driver’s license, his ID card, office complimentary cards, a driver’s license, his Access Bank statement, an international passport belonging to one Mary Johnson, and UBA statements of account.”
She claimed that she had mistakenly taken the envelope while questioning the police at her Yaba home.
When the police arrived at No. 2 in my home. I told DSP Olusegun Bamidele that I mistakenly took the envelope home, according to Ojukwu in Alagomeji, Yaba, at 57 Akinwunmi Street.
The defendant added that she was assisted by someone else, not Quadri, in obtaining her driver’s license and other documents, and that she had also obtained her international passport by herself.
She said, “My phone conversation with Quadri was all about Loud and Rohypnol.”
Before this testimony, the court heard Onwuka Egwu, Ojukwu’s attorney’s counsel’s submissions, who reminded the judge that he had requested to tender some letters after the prosecution had objected.
He stated, “I wrote a letter to the prosecution asking for the release of items held on bond to the nominal complainant on October 29, 2021.”
Yusuf Sule, the prosecution’s attorney, informed the court that the prosecution had not seen any of this.
Justice Yetunde Adesanya directed Egwu to tender the letters after hearing both parties’ arguments.
Through Ojukwu, Egwu submitted four letters that were all acknowledged in evidence.
Justice Adesanya ruled that the letter, which was written on October 29, 2021 and was mailed to the DPP, was admissible.
The judge remarked, “The letter is properly before the court and is therefore admissible in evidence.”
The judge also accepted Ojukwu’s handwritten letter naming Egwu as her attorney, and accepted the document as evidence that “the correspondence is a record.”
Additionally, copies of letters sent to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police and Panti, as well as those to the Ministry of Justice, the Attorney-General of Lagos State, and the Inspector-General of Police, are permitted.
The judge argued that the document’s creator is relevant, and relevance can be defined as relevance. I concur that the objection has been overturned.
Through Ojukwu, Egwu also offered an iPhone 7 Plus, an iPhone 11 Pro, an iPhone X, and a MacBook following the ruling.
She said, “My sister owns the iPhone 7 Plus, while my sister owns the iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone X, and silver 2019 MacBook Pro,” and that she had the devices identified. I gave a vendor the MacBook.
