Ataga’s Death: How We Tracked Chidinma Via Her Phone –Witness
The ninth prosecution witness, DSP Olusegun Bamidele, on Monday told a Lagos High Court at Tafawa Balewa Square, that Chidinma Ojukwu, charged with the murder of Usifo Ataga, was tracked through her phone. INDEPENDENT reports.
According to INDEPENDENT, Bamidele said that the intelligence and tactical unit of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Yaba police station, tracked Ojukwu down at No. 57, Akinwunmi St., Alagomeji, Yaba. Bamidele, a police officer, serving at the homicide department section of SCID, Yaba, said this while giving evidence in the ongoing trial of Ojukwu charged with the murder of Ataga, Chief Executive Officer of Super TV. Information Guide Nigeria
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He gave evidence as the ninth prosecution witness (PW9) and was led in evidence by the Lagos State Director for Public Prosecutions, Mrs A. O. Oluwafemi. jamb results
The defendant, Ojukwu, is charged with murder, stealing, and forgery alongside her sister, Chioma Egbuchu, and one Adedapo Quadri.
At the resumed trial on Monday, the police officer narrated how the case was transferred from Maroko police station to his own department at SCID Yaba.
He said the case was transferred and assigned to his team on June 17, 2021, with a suspect, one Nkechi Mogbo, the owner of the apartment where the incident occurred.
The witness said that the investigating police officer (IPO) from Maroko police station explained to him how a complaint about a body with a mark of violence was brought to their station.
Bamidele said that the IPO from Maroko also informed him that he took pictures and made video recordings, which were transferred into his smartphone. The witness narrated that after receiving the complaint from the Maroko IPO, he visited the scene of crime alongside the IOP and Mogbo, the owner of the place.
“We met the security guard who took us into the apartment and I observed that there were bloodstains on the floor, the bed was ruffled with bloodstains on the pillow and the duvet”.
“The IPO also took me to Yaba general hospital mortuary to see the body and I observed that there were stab wounds on the deceased body, including injury on his head and knees. “I also saw that the two wrists had marks indicating that they were tied,” Bamidele said.
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