In the ongoing alleged murder trial of Chidinma Ojukwu, prosecution witness, DSP Olusegun Bamidele, said they discovered that Super TV CEO, Michael Ataga’s drink was spiked.
Chidinma, a 300-Level Mass Communication student at the University of Lagos, is standing trial alongside Adedapo Quadri and Chioma Egbuchu.
During the last adjourned date, Bamidele informed the court that Ojukwu confessed to spiking Ataga’s drink.
The witness said he believed the first defendant’s confession.
During the resumed hearing, however, Quadri’s lawyer, Mr. Babatunde Busari, asked the witness to show where in the statements of the first and second defendants it was written that the deceased’s drink had been spiked before his death.
Bamidele answered that it was established during the investigation.
Additionally, the witness testified that Chidinma and the deceased smoked some substances and drank alcohol together.
He said the deceased and Chidinma ordered more sets of the substance when the first set finished.
Bamidele said the first defendant made it known in her statement.
He said it was a dispatch rider who delivered the additional substance that Chidinma and the late Ataga smoked.
The witness, however, said that all efforts made to get the dispatch rider proved abortive.
After listening to the cross-examination, Justice Yetunde Adesanya adjourned the case until February 20 to continue the trial.
Chidinma Ojukwu and the two others were arraigned by the Lagos State Government on October 12, 2021.
Chidinma and Quadri are facing eight counts bordering on conspiracy, murder, and stabbing; while her sister Egbuchu, is facing the ninth count of stealing an iPhone 7 belonging to the late Ataga.
