Super TV CEO: Police Release Lekki Apartment Operator, Chidinma’s Father

Usifo Ataga (Victim), Chidinma Ojukwu (Suspect)

“In view of this, I have ordered her release on bail while we continue our investigation. However, if any other thing during the investigation points to her, bail is not the end of the case and we will bring her back.”

The Lagos State Police Command has released one Nkechi Mogbo, the Lekki apartment operator where Chidinma Ojukwu allegedly stabbed Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga, to death.

The latest development was made known by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, on Friday.

EKO HOT BLOG gathered that the suspect’s father, who was earlier arrested by the Command, has been released on bail.

It was learnt that Chidinma’s father was arrested for hindering her daughter’s arrest at their residence in the Alagomeji area of Lagos State.

Until Chindinma’s arrest, Mogbo had been in police custody after an investigation showed that she operated the service apartment where the University of Lagos (UNILAG) undergraduate allegedly killed the Super TV CEO.

The suspect, while being paraded on Thursday at the Command headquarters in Ikeja, confessed to have killed Ataga.

However, speaking on Friday, Odumosu said though an investigation was ongoing, an order had been given for Mogbo’s release on bail.

He added that Chidinma’s father had also been released.

The police commissioner further stated that the UNILAG student’s account of how she perpetrated the crime exonerated her father and Mogbo.

He said, “Chidinma’s statement exonerated her father as she said that he was not aware of the incident. We released him on Thursday.

“Also, the lady in our custody, one Mrs. Nkechi Mogbo, who leased the flat from the property owner and used it for a service apartment, has been released on bail.

“After Magbo was arrested, she assisted the police because of the information she gave us. Now that we got the principal suspect, and the fact that the principal suspect confessed that she singularly committed the act, and equally went further to explain that she never met Nkechi Mogbo, but that she only phoned her and that they transacted all the business online, the culpability in the case of murder is still exonerating her.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu

Efforts to speak with her father on Friday proved abortive as he was nowhere to be found.

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