16th August, 2021
The family of murdered Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga has hired popular human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) to ensure justice is served for their slain son.
Ataga’s family in a letter to Ozekhome on Sunday also accused the police of stifling efforts to ensure those behind the Super TV CEO murder are brought to book.
The family, in the letter, accused Lagos State police commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu of “attempting to protect the killers of Ataga.”
They claimed that the Chioma Ojukwu, the prime suspect in Ataga’s murder, was arraigned in a Yaba magistrate court without the family being informed.
The Usifo family also decried the alleged comfortable movement of Chidinma from prison to court and from court back to the prison.
The family said Chidinma was moved in an Uber ride without handcuffs.
The family alleged that the man who had claimed to be Chidinma’s father and was charged for obstructing Police investigation was her (Chidinma) “sugar daddy” and not her biological father.
They faulted the one million naira bail granted to Chidinma’s father and one Babalola Disu, another suspect in the case by the magistrate court.
The family alleged that Disu is “highly suspected to have carried out the murder”.
Mr Ataga’s family premised its suspicion on information they received to the effect that Disu’s short rental apartment was directly opposite the apartment where Mr Ataga was killed.
The family, however, urged Ozekhome and his chambers to take up the case and see that justice is served through a very professional prosecution of all those involved in the crime.
However, Mr. Ozekhome also confirmed that he is now representing Ataga’s family
In a statement on Sunday, Mr. Ozekhome said the bereaved family hired him “to protect and defend the interests of the Ataga family and his teeming friends, admirers, kinsmen, and business associates, to ensure that justice is duly served in the matter.”