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Super TV CEO boss, Usifo Ataga’s family petitions IGP, demands fresh probe into murder

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The household of the late Tremendous TV Chief Government Officer, Usifo Ataga, has petitioned the Inspector-Normal of Police, Usman Alkali, to re-investigate the circumstances surrounding the dying of their son at a service condominium within the Lekki space of Lagos State.

Counsel to the household of late Ataga, Mike Ozekhome, who disclosed this to Punch, mentioned to date, the police investigation into Ataga’s dying was not professionally dealt with, including that the police, with out acquiring authorized recommendation from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions, arraigned the prime suspect, Chidinma Ojukwu, and different suspected accomplices at a chief Justice of the Peace’s court docket, which had no jurisdiction over homicide instances.

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria acknowledged that Ataga’s household alleged that one of many arraigned suspected accomplices, Babalola Disu, carried out the homicide.

”The household premised its suspicion on data it needed to the impact that Disu’s quick rental condominium was immediately reverse the condominium the place Ataga was killed.

The household narrated how the mentioned Disu had requested that the carpenter of the Airbnb quick service condominium ought to be known as to repair his door, just for the carpenter to be informed that it was really Ataga’s door that was damaged.

The household mentioned it additionally suspects the mentioned Disu for having a hand in Ataga’s homicide due to the style wherein he disappeared from the service condominium and puzzled why he was charged for mere obstruction and failure to report a criminal offense, thus being granted bail within the ridiculous sum of N1m solely.

Why did Disu hinder police investigation and over what crime? How did he achieve this? What crime did Disu fail to report back to the police for which he was now charged? Was it the homicide case? And in that case, how was he linked to it and beneath what circumstances did he learn about it? The Ataga household wants solutions” the petition mentioned

Ozekhome acknowledged that the household demanded re-investigation of the entire homicide case of their breadwinner, including that the findings ought to be handed over to the Lagos State DPP to formally re-arraign Chidinma and different suspected accomplices who had already been charged earlier than the chief Justice of the Peace’s court docket.

“These are the individuals of Babalola Disu; Ojukwu – Chidinma’s alleged father or sugar daddy; Jessica Egbochi; Abayomi Olutayo; and, Ifeoluwa Olowu; and some other individual(s) whom the police investigation should throw up as having been linked to Ataga’s cold-blooded homicide,” the petition added

Ataga was discovered useless in a shortlet condominium in June this yr, days after his household declared him lacking. The police later arrested his lover, Chidinma Ojukwu, a 21-year-old scholar of the College of Lagos, who initially claimed she killed him however later recanted her declare, alleging that she walked into the condominium to seek out him useless.