The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday paraded the 21-year-old side chic of the late Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Michael Usifo Ataga.
The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday paraded the 21-year-old side chic of the late Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Michael Usifo Ataga.
The young lady, Chidinma, who is an undergraduate of the University of Lagos, stabbed Ataga in several places at a rented Airbnb in Lekki area of Lagos, killing him in the process.
Recall that The Street Journal had exclusively reported how Ataga, who resides in Banana Island was reported missing about two weeks ago by concerned friends and family after all efforts to reach him proved abortive.
Checks at his Victoria Island office showed he wasn’t there either and this put everyone in a panic mode including his wife and children who reside in Abuja.
Unfortunately, his lifeless body was found in a flat in Lekki phase 1 with multiple stable wounds after several withdrawals were made from his account.
Usifo would have been 50 years old this month.
Following his disappearance, a combined team of concerned friends, family members, the police and DSS operatives all the way from Abuja through the concerted efforts of the wife, a manager with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, tracked down the owner of the Airbnb, who received payment from the side chic’s bank account into which Ataga had previously made a transfer for the payment of the Airbnb.
The apartment was broken into and that was where he was found dead with multiple stab wounds in his neck, chest and thigh.
The side chic withdrew N5 million from his account before killing Ataga.
Apparently, the side chic carried out the murder after she must have drugged him as the security guards at the rentals said no third party came visiting Ataga and the side chic besides a dispatch rider who brought drugs for the girl.
The owner of the Airbnb has equally been arrested.
After the side chic left the apartment following his gruesome death, money began to disappear from Atage’s Guaranty Trust Bank account and it was only when an email from Ataga’s email address asking for a change in his account did the withdrawals stop.
With this, GTBank put an embargo on the account to prevent any further withdrawal.
Investigations is still on and the case is still unfolding.
