Police have arrested more suspects over the murder of SuperTV Boss.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Lagos State Police Command says more suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of late SuperTV boss, Usifo Ataga.
The Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, disclosed this during a parade of some suspects at the command headquarters in Ikeja on Wednesday.
Odumosu said, “We have established a case of conspiracy in the murder and we have arrested more suspects.”
The SuperTV boss was first reported missing by concerned friends and family after all efforts to reach him proved abortive.
The Lagos State Police Command later found Ataga’s lifeless body with multiple wounds in a vacation rental at the Lekki Phase 1 area of the state on June 16.
Gatekeepers News earlier reported that a 300-level student in UNILAG’s Department of Mass Communication, Chidinma Ojukwu while being paraded at the state police command on June 24 confessed to stabbing Ataga to death.
The 21-year-old during the parade said she withdrew N380,000 from the deceased’s account to pay her school fees.
The undergraduate who confessed to having stabbed Ataga to death in self-defence was arrested at her residence at Alagomeji, Yaba.
She stated that she met Ataga about four months before the incident.
On Monday, Gatekeepers News reported that Ojukwu made a u-turn from her earlier confession, stating that she didn’t kill the Super TV boss but met him dead.
Odumosu described the new claims made by the suspected killer of Super TV boss as an “afterthought”.
The Commissioner while dismissing claims that Ojukwu was given a soft-landing, assured the public that police would not compromise in the case.
The House of Representatives has earlier warned that Chidinma Ojukwu must not die in the custody of the Nigeria Police Force.
The House in their resolutions on Tuesday charged the police to “conduct a proper investigation into the matter and refrain from parading Ms. Chidinma around to grant interviews on the matter under investigation.”
The lawmakers further called on the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, to “call all police personnel to order and ensure that there is no repeat of this violation of human rights and media access to arrested persons in the future, to avoid compromising the case in a court of law.”
According to the House, the IGP must ensure that “Ms. Ojukwu (the accused) does not die in custody or commit suicide while awaiting trial as in some past cases.”
