Super TV CEO: How Police ICT Unit Tracked 21-Year-Old Alleged Killer

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Commendations are in order for the men of the Lagos State Police
Command over the arrest of Chidinma Ojukwu, the 21-year-old student
of the University of Lagos, who allegedly stabbed the Chief
Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, to death in the Lekki
area of the state.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Muyiwa
Adejobi, in a statement on Friday, said the Command adopted a
“scientific method” to arrest the suspect.

The PPRO, in the statement, said an Information and
Communication Technology unit recently created by the Commissioner
of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, tracked the suspect, who used different
SIM cards – both Nigerian and foreign ones.

The statement was titled, ‘Lagos Security: Police Go Tough On
Armed Robbers, Miscreants’.

It partly read, “The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State,
recently established ICT/Tracking Unit at the State Criminal
Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba-Lagos, to adopt scientific
and forensic measures of unravelling crimes and criminality in
Lagos State.

“The unit, named D23, headed by SP Kasumu Rilwan, a computer
scientist, has been instrumental to the landmark achievements and
many feats recorded by the command under the watch of CP Hakeem
Odumosu, including the latest arrest of the prime suspect in the
alleged murder of Mr Michael Usifo Ataga, one Chidimma Adaora
Ojukwu on 23rd, June, 2021.

“Similarly, the Commissioner of Police recently created two
Squads, the Special Squad and the Strike Team, at the Command
Headquarters, Ikeja-Lagos, to complement the existing department
and units of the command in combating crimes in the state. The new
Squads, as well, have played many roles in suppressing and keeping
criminals and hoodlums at bay in Lagos State.”

Meanwhile, the Lagos CP said that “the case will be charged to
court as soon as investigation is concluded”.

TheNigerialawyer recalls that the suspect and her father were
arrested at their residence at No. 57, Akinwunmi Street, Alagomeji,
Yaba, on Wednesday night.

The father of the suspect had resisted his daughter’s arrest
because he didn’t believe that his daughter committed any crime
until she confessed on Thursday.

The undergraduate was later paraded on Thursday at the command
headquarters in the Ikeja area of Lagos but her father was not
paraded.

When paraded, the UNILAG student confessed to stabbing
50-year-old Ataga to death on June 15, 2021.

The 21-year-old said she had been in a romantic relationship
with Ataga for about four months before the ugly incident occurred
at a Short Service Apartment, situated at No 19, Adewale Oshin
Street, Lekki, Phase 1, Lagos.

Ojukwu had also said that she and Ataga were “having fun” when
an argument broke out and she stabbed him twice after which she
withdrew N380,000 from his account using his ATM card.

The suspect, who fled the scene, was, however, arrested at her
father’s residence in the Yaba area of the state.

Items recovered from the suspect include, “Complimentary cards,
Access Bank Statement of Account, one Nigerian Passport with
No.B50010434 belonging to the suspect, one fake Drivers license
bearing Mary Johnson with the suspect’s photograph, one National
Identification Card bearing the suspect’s name, one UBA ATM debit
card bearing the suspect’s name and one University of Lagos ID card
bearing the suspect’s name.”

Some Nigerians on social media have since praised the men of the
Lagos State Police Command for the timely arrest of the prime
suspect in the murder case.