Chidinma Ojukwu and her father lived together in their 57 Akinwunmi Street, Alagomeji, Yaba, apartment in Lagos State, a gated two-storey building block of flats painted wine and white.
Chidinma was arrested and paraded by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stabbing the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, to death at a service apartment they lodged in the Lekki area of the state.
The suspect said to be a 300 level student at the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos, is in police custody. The police noted that casual workers cleaning the apartment discovered Ataga’s remains in the place the next day.
Some neighbours who spoke to The PUNCH expressed the surprise that the Unilag undergraduate would be a killer.
She is calm and likes to mind her business, an unidentified lady said with a pitiful look on her face.
A trader on the street also described the suspect as, “…Like my other customers, she buys things and leaves. I don’t know her closely.’’
With mouth agape and brows furrowed, another unidentified woman said many of them in the area were shocked to see Chidinma paraded on TV for the alleged murder of Ataga.
She said, “My husband and I watched the news and saw her paraded by the police. We were surprised. Everyone around knows her. Her father has other children.’’
