SUPER TV CEO: A WITNESS SAW CHIDINMA SLEEPING WITH A FOSTER FATHER

Usifo Ataga, the CEO of Super TV, was killed, and Chidinma Ojukwu, the suspect, had an intimate relationship with her foster father, Onoh Ojukwu.

Olusegu Bamidele, a deputy superintendent of police, said this on Tuesday while being cross-examined by Onwuka Egwu, Chidinma's attorney, in a trial-within-a-trial at Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos.

Along with Chioma Egbuchu, her sister, and one Adedapo Quadri, she is accused of murder, theft, and forgery.

On October 29, 2022, Bamidele, a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) assigned to the homicide unit of the state criminal Investigating department (SCID) Yaba, testified in court about the results of his team's investigation and how Chidinma confessed to killing Ataga after an altercation in his hotel room.

"In the course of our detention of Mr. Ojukwu, we stumbled on intelligence that there was an amorous (sexual) relationship between the first defendant (chidinma) and her foster father.

"That gave us a hint that Mr. Ojukwu was not sincere and that he was aware of the offense that Chidinma is standing trial for today.

"We found that she was concealing the real information, We also established that the mother of the first defendant never approved the custody of the first defendant to Ojukwu and it was on this basis that we charged him to court alongside the three defendants at the Magistrate Court so that the court can decide if he should get bail or not," he said.

The case was adjourned till November 10.