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Murdered Super TV boss’ family names new suspect, hires senior lawyer Ozekhome

The family of the Super TV boss, Usifo Ataga who was brutally killed on June 15, has hired a senior advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, to ensure the culprits involved in the murder are brought to book.

Recall that Chidinma Ojukwu, an undergraduate at the University of Lagos had confessed to the police how she murdered Mr. Ataga in a service apartment at Lekki area of Lagos State.

Ojukwu, 21, a 300-level Mass Communication student, while being paraded by the police at the state command in Ikeja, said she began a romantic relationship with Mr. Ataga four months earlier.

The police, in a statement, said Ms. Ojukwu, on June 15 at about 5 p.m., allegedly murdered Mr. Ataga, 50, by stabbing him several times with a sharp object.

In a statement on Sunday, Ozekhome said the bereaved family hired him “to protect and defend the interests of the Ataga family and his teeming friends, admirers, kinsmen, and business associates, to ensure that justice is duly served in the matter.”

The Ataga family, in its instruction letter to Ozekhome, decried the alleged low level of professionalism exhibited so far by the police in bringing to book and prosecuting the alleged perpetrators of the crime, involving “Ataga’s unprovoked and cold-blooded murder”.

The family also accused the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu, of being complicit in an alleged attempt to protect the killers of Ataga.

The family cited the arraignment of Chidinma Ojukwu, the alleged murderer of the deceased without being informed.

Also, The family said that one Babalola Disu, who was arraigned for allegedly preventing the police from performing their duties and failing to report a crime to the police, is “highly suspected to have carried out the murder”.

The Ataga’s family had also decried the alleged comfortable movement to and from the court back to the prison of Ms. Ojukwu, in an Uber ride.

They queried why this was done without even handcuffs and without being informed of the intending arraignment.

The family also alleged that the man who had claimed to be Ms. Ojukwu’s father and who was also charged at the magistrate’s court for obstructing a police investigation, was actually not Ms. Ojukwu’s biological father after all, but her “sugar daddy”.

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