A 21-year-old 300L Mass Communication student of University of Lagos (UNILAG), Chidinma Ojukwu, on Thursday told newsmen how she stabbed Super TV CEO, Michael Ataga to death in Lagos.
Ataga’s lifeless body was on Wednesday, June 16, found in a flat in Lekki phase 1, Lagos, with multiple stable wounds.
Ojukwu, who said she was arrested at her Alagomeji, Yaba residence where she stays with her parents, said 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.
Ojukwu said she only withdrew N380,000 from Ataga’s account after she had escaped and not N5 million.
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu, while addressing newsmen at the state Command, Ikeja, said the Ojukwu hurriedly changed her clothes and left the appartment.
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.
Odumosu said the suspect escaped with the victim’s Automated Teller Machine(ATM) card which was used in withdrawing some money from his account.
The commissioner of police said he deemed it necessary to brief members of the public the update on the investigation as there had been fake reports in circulation as regards the incident.
Odumosu further urged members of the public to utilise the social media positively and not for fake report which damages the image of the country.
Ataga was at first reported missing by concerned friends and family after all efforts to reach him proved abortive.
Checks at his Victoria Island office showed he was not there putting everyone in panic mode including his wife and children who reside in Abuja before his body was later found.
