Miss Chidinma Ojukwu, the 21-year-old UNILAG student paraded for the murder of Super TV CEO, Michael Usifo Ataga, has denied withdrawing N5 million from the account of the deceased as claimed.
Fielding questions from journalists at the Lagos police command headquarters in Ikeja on Thursday, Ojukwu said she only withdrew N380,000.
Meanwhile, the 300-level student said she stabbed Ataga three times in self-defence.
Recall that the Super TV CEO’s lifeless body was on June 16 found in a flat in Lekki Phase 1, Lagos with multiple wounds.
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The student who said she was arrested at her residence at Alagomeji, Yaba, where she resides with her parents, said that she met Ataga about five months ago.
“On a Sunday, June 13, he asked that I get a place where we can stay. I checked online and sent to him, he asked me to go check it out which I did and paid.
“On Monday, June 14, we were together drinking, smoking and I also went to get food. On Tuesday, June 15, he was making advances at me and I resisted, so he became violent and later had his way.
“In the afternoon he ordered for smoke, ate and we became high because I also smoked with him even though I was still angry for the first one he did.
“So, I was on my own, watching a movie on the couch. He came at me again and I said no because I wasn’t happy with him.
“I told him that he doesn’t help me but only plays me around, he kept trying to make advances and I was resisting so I had to defend myself.
“At some point, he hit my head on the wall and was choking me. I tried escaping but the door was locked so he pulled me back.
“I grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed him twice in the neck and threw the knife on the bed.
“He then tried reaching for the knife so I picked it again and stabbed him the third time,” she said.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, who paraded the suspect, said that the student hurriedly changed her clothes after stabbing the Super TV CEO and left the apartment.
Odumosu said that Ataga’s body was discovered in a pool of blood when it was time to clean the apartment on Wednesday, June 16, during which the door had to be broken.
He said that the escaped with Ataga’s ATM card and withdrew money from his account after her escape.
The commissioner of police said he deemed it necessary to brief the public on the update on the investigation, noting that as there had been fake reports in circulation as regards the incident.