Court Remands Chidinma For 30 Days

A magistrate court sitting in Yaba, Lagos, has ordered the remand of Chidinma Ojukwu, the sus­pected killer of Usifo Ataga, the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV for 30 days.

The presiding magis­trate, Adeola Adedayo, gave the order following a remand application by the police prosecutor.

Ms. Ojukwu, a 300-level student of the University of Lagos was arrested by the police on June 23 for killing Mr Usifo.

Ojukwu, who was dat­ing the deceased narrated how she stabbed him sev­eral times, stole from him and left him in the AirB­nB apartment where they were lodged.

The Police Prosecutor, Cyril Ajifor, while urging the court to remand the suspect, Ojukwu, said the application is made pursu­ant to Section 264 Subsec­tions 1 and 2 of the Crimi­nal Law of Lagos State.

Ojukwu appeared before the magistrate with Quadri Adedapo, the co-de­fendant in the case.

Mr. Ajifor said attached to the remand application is a 12-page affidavit, state­ments of the defendants and exhibit to show that the file has been duplicated to the DPP for legal advice.

“We are praying for the remand of the defendants for the first count,” Mr. Aji­for said.

Representing the first defendant, Dr. Babajide Martins, Director of the Office of Public Defender said the remand applica­tion is “inevitable.”

Martins who was not opposed to the application enjoined the prosecution team to make necessary documents available to the defence before being brought before the court.

In her ruling, the magis­trate granted the remand of the defendants for 30 days.

“In the absence of any­thing to the contrary, the two defendants are remand­ed for 30 days in the first in­stance,” Mrs. Adedayo said.

She adjourned the mat­ter to September 5 for the review of remand and legal advice from the Di­rectorate of Public Prose­cution.