The trial of an undergraduate Chidinma Ojukwu who was accused of killing the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga resumed on Wednesday at the Lagos High Court with the testimony of a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Olusegun Bamidele.
He told Justice Yetunde Adesanya, that Chidinma the murder suspect told him she spiked the drink of the deceased.
Ojukwu, a 300-level, Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos is facing trial for the offence alongside her sister, Chioma Egbuchu and one Adedapo Quadri.
Bamidele, who is serving with the homicide department of the State Criminal Investigating Department Yaba, was answering questions about the incident while being cross-examined by the defence counsel, Mr. Onwuka Egwu.
At the resumption of the cross-examination, a video displaying the last moments of the deceased, Ataga and the suspect, Chidinma was played to ascertain the items in the video as listed in the evidence given to the court as exhibits.
Egwu asked the witness to confirm that the items were handed over to him in the state they were seen in the video.
“The belt and the sneaker were put together in a nylon bag while the key was used in removing the car from the compound to Maroko police station. There was no blood stains on them.
Counsel to the second defendant, Babatunde Busari also cross-examined the witness.
He asked the witness if there was any document to show that all the items recovered from the apartment of the first defendant, Adedapo Quadri, were forged.
The items include bank statements, Unilag school ID card, driver’s license, an International passport and the ID card of one Mary Johnson.
Bamidele also stated that It was based on the suspicion of the timeline of the telephone conversation between the first and second defendant that he requested the call log from the telephone network but he did not tender the transcript of the call log.
When asked about the drug Rophybol, the witness testified that the first defendant, Chidinma told him that a dose of the drug is capable of knocking a person out. He also said that he tendered a sample of the drug in evidence.
Justice Adesanya has adjourned till January 29 for the continuation of the trial.
