By our Reporter
CP Hakeem Olusegun Odumosu,the Commissioner of Police,Lagos State who addressed the members of press on the update of the Command said 21 year Old prime suspect who was involved in the gruesome murder of one Michael Usifo Ataga occurred on 15th June, 2021 at an apartment in Lekki Area of Lagos State.
According to him,the Command, due to its unrelenting and professional commitment in unraveling the incident, swung into action, deployed its human and material resources to apprehend the prime suspect on Wednesday 23rd June, 2021 at about 9pm at her Yaba residence; and she is being paraded today.
DETAILS OF
ARREST OF MURDER
SUSPECT: CHIDINMA ADAORA OJUKWU, F, 21
EXHIBITS: One Drivers license, Complimentary cards, Access Bank
Statement Account one Nigeria International Passport with No.B50010434 belonging to the suspect, one fake Drivers license bearing Mary Johnson with the suspect’s photograph, one National Identification Card bearing the suspect’s name, one UBA ATM debit card bearing the suspect’s name and one University of Lagos ID card bearing the suspect’s name.
FACT OF THE CASE:
A case of Murder was transferred from Maroko Division of the Command to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti Yaba, for discreet
investigation. The fact of the case is that, on 15/06/21 at about 1700hrs, one Chidimma Adaora Ojukwu, a 300 level, undergraduate of the University of
Lagos, Conspired with others, now at Large, and allegedly murdered one Michael Usifo Ataga, m, 50, by stabbing him severally with a sharp object at a
Short Service Apartment, situated at No 19, Adewale Oshin Street, Lekki, phase 1, Lagos.
The prime suspect, Chidinma, who had earlier booked for the apartment on 13/6/21 secretly, left the apartment after the deed had been done on 15/6/21 at
about 1730hrs. The suspect was tracked and arrested in her resident at No. 57, Akinwunmi Street, Alagomeji, Yaba-Lagos. During search, the prime suspect and Mass Communication Student of the University of Lagos, was caught with a blood-soaked cloth worn on the day of the incident. The suspect confessed to have stabbed the deceased with a kitchen knife after a struggle.
She further confessed to have taken the knife away while leaving the scene and disposed same in a dust bin at her residence. It has also been revealed that the
suspect equally stole the deceased iPhone.
Investigation is ongoing to arrest other accomplices. However, the Case will be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.