The household of late Tremendous TV Chief Govt Officer, Usifo Ataga, have requested a constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, to defend their curiosity and be certain that justice is served.
Of their instruction letter to Ozekhome, the household decried the “low degree of professionalism” exhibited by the police within the prosecution of the suspected killers of Ataga.
This was disclosed in a press release obtained by PUNCH Metro.
In line with the assertion, the household accused the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, of complicity in an alleged try to guard the killers of the 50-year-old businessman.
They alleged that the household was not knowledgeable when the prime suspect, 21-year-old Chidinma Ojukwu, was arraigned earlier than the Chief Justice of the Peace’s Court docket, Yaba, Lagos.
“Chidinma voluntarily confessed in her first public outing to stabbing Usifo severally with a knife beneath the affect of medicine and alcohol, and withdrawing the sum of N380,000 from the sufferer’s account together with his ATM card. She was later to backtrack on this confession in a rigorously organized televised interview, the place she claimed she allegedly acted in self-defence.
“The Usifo household had additionally decried the alleged snug motion to jail from courtroom and from courtroom again to the jail of Chidinma in a Uber journey. The household queried why this was carried out with out even handcuffs and with out being knowledgeable of the intending arraignment.
“The household additionally alleged that the person who claimed to be Chidinma’s father and who was additionally charged to the Justice of the Peace’s courtroom for obstructing police investigation was really not Chidinma’s organic father in any case, however her ‘sugar daddy’. The household postulated that which means that the police intentionally lied about it.
“The household made it clear it suspects the stated Disu for having a hand in Ataga’s homicide and questioned why he was charged with mere obstruction of police investigation and failure to report a criminal offense, thus being granted bail within the ridiculous time period of N1m solely and two sureties in like sum.
“To all different suspects concerned on this dastardly act (besides Chidinma who was remanded), bail was granted by Chief Justice of the Peace Adeola Adedayo, within the humorous situations of N1m every with two sureties in like sum. The household stated it couldn’t perceive these over-liberal bail phrases in such a heinous crime of hideous and horrific homicide.
“The household views these acts by the police as a slap on their face, the face of justice and a deliberate cover-up.”
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