In her statement to the Lagos State High Court, Chidinma Ojukwu, a 300-level student at the University of Lagos, said that she was too afraid to report the murder of Super TV CEO Michael Usifo Ataga to the authorities.
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At Tafawa Balewa Square, Chidinma resumed her defense on Monday before Justice Yetunde Adesanya. She claimed to have read accounts of people who had reported crimes only to face accusations themselves.
“I contemplated contacting the gateman once more, as I had done so earlier while on the apartment’s staircase, but I abruptly ended the call due to my fear,” she shared.
I was looking through my phone on WhatsApp and realized that the message I wrote to Michael had been read, and he came online. I was going over my activity on 16 June 2021,” she recounted. I tried calling him multiple times, but each time he ignored me. I was bewildered.
In order to find out what happened to Michael, Chidinma asserted that she contacted an Abu, who was in charge of the apartment’s water pump and generator. That man I was accompanying, you didn’t see me yesterday, did you?” “I asked,” she claimed.
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She allegedly heard Abu say, “I see am yesterday, him drive comot,” but the gateman later told her that Ataga’s car was still at the property.
“Please Michael, forgive me,” Chidinma wrote in a WhatsApp message to Michael, who was clearly starting to worry. I apologize for abandoning you in that condition. It was terrifying. According to her, “I discovered I had been blocked after sending that message.”
Four or five officers, according to Chidinma’s testimony in court, apprehended her on June 23, 2021. She asserted that one of the officers slapped her when she stated that she did not own any property belonging to the dead. Even though her father tried to stop it, she said, they were nonetheless hauled to the station.
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