DSP Olusegun Bamidele, a witness withinside the trial of Chidinma Ojukwu, has given testimony in courtroom docket.
Bamidele, the 9th prosecution witness withinside the homicide case of Usifo Ataga, has advised a Lagos High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square how the high suspect Chidinma Ojukwu transferred the sum of N5 million from the Super TV Chief Executive Officer’s financial institution account the day she allegedly stabbed him to death.
Testifying earlier than the High Court on Thursday, Bamidele defined to the courtroom docket how the 300-degree Mass Communication undergraduate of the University of Lagos transferred N5 million from Ataga’s account to any other account on June 15, 2021.
The protection shield of the quick allow provider condominium, Abubakar Mohammed, in which Ataga turned into murdered throughout his proof earlier than the courtroom docket on November 16, 2021, stated that Chidinma left the condo on a Tuesday night, which changed into June 15, 2021, and in no way back there.
The protection protect additionally knowledgeable the courtroom docket that it become on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, that the lifeless frame of Ataga become determined.
Chidinma who’s status trial earlier than Justice Yetunde Adesanya for the alleged homicide of Ataga is likewise charged with stealing and forgery along her sister, Chioma Egbuchu and one Adedapo Quadri.
Chidinma become arraigned along Quadri and Egbuchu on October 12, 2021, on 9 counts of homicide through the Lagos State Government.
Whereas Chidinma and Quadri are going through the primary to 8 counts bordering on conspiracy, homicide, stabbing, forgery, making of financial institution statements and stealing, Egbuchu is going through the 9th rely of receiving a stolen iPhone 7 belonging to the overdue Super TV CEO.
According to the expenses in opposition to them, Chidinma and Quadri have been imagined to have conspired and murdered Ataga on June 15, 2021, through stabbing him numerous instances with a knife withinside the neck and chest.
On Thursday, the Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions (DDPP), Mrs Adenike Oluwafemi, on the resumed listening to of the case informed the courtroom docket that the problem become for continuation of trial.
During the continuation of the trial, Bamidele who had now no longer completed giving proof changed into ushered into the witness container in the course of which the DPP, Oluwafemi requested for showcase P11, that’s the Access Bank Statement of Ataga.
She requested the witness to inform the courtroom docket why he had the financial institution statements of the deceased.
Responding, Bamidele informed the courtroom docket that in the path of the research and in a bid to recognize what should have influenced the primary defendant (Chidinma) to kill the Super TV CEO, the police wrote Access Bank requesting the financial institution assertion of the deceased and a replica turned into given to them.
Bamidele in addition defined that from a near have a take a observe the copies of the financial institution statements coupled with the reality that the telephones of the deceased have been already withinside the ownership of the primary defendant, who have been on top of things of the account, it turned into located that on June 15, 2021, the primary defendant used the deceased’s telecellsmartphone to switch N5 million from his account to some other financial institution.
Continuing, the witness stated, “On June 16, 2021, 4 transactions of N20,000 had been crafted from the deceased’s account and on June 17, any other withdrawal of N20,000 become made 5 instances and the comments have been ‘switch among customers’.
“On the equal June 16, N50,000 became transferred to Nkechi Mogbo, any other N11,2 hundred of the fund become additionally transferred to Caprical Capital, at the equal June 16, some other N50,000 turned into transferred from Ataga’s account to Mogbo and every other N93,000 transferred from Ataga’s GTBank to his Access Bank account. A switch of N110,000.seventy five changed into debited from the deceased’s account on June 18, 2021.
“On June 19, 2021, a switch of N20,000 turned into made 4 instances on that identical day every other switch of N20,000 changed into made 5 instances and it became via the us code.”
Bamidele similarly defined they wrote to GTBank to get Ataga’s assertion of account, and that on June 13, 2021, there has been a web switch of N10,000 to Chidinma, any other N105,000 became additionally transferred to Chidinma at the identical day for price of the quick allow provider condominium, paid to Nkechi Mogbo, the proprietor of the rental.
“On that identical June 13, there has been N13,000 buy transaction at Ango Villa, N14,two hundred transaction for buy at Dwine Bar global, at the identical June 13, there has been a switch of N20,399.
“On June 14, 2021, there has been N21,000 switch from Ataga’s account to Chidinma’s account and some other switch of N15,000 paid to Chidinma, there has been a N5,000 transaction that become made on June 14 and paid to Adiba Online choppy.”
It became collected that once the prosecution sought to confess the written statements of the defendants, Chidinma’s recommend, Onwuka Egwu, objected to the admissibility of the record and argued that the primary defendant (Chidinma) did now no longer make the statements voluntarily.
The legal professional stated the statements have been received through oppression, inducement, intimidation and beneathneath duress and consequently prayed the courtroom docket to check the veracity of the voluntariness of the statements.
Meanwhile, the suggest for the second one defendant, Babatunde Busari, did now no longer object, and the recommend for the 0.33 defendant, Miss M. A. Abia-Bassey additionally did now no longer object.
But the prosecutor prayed the courtroom docket to behavior a tribulation in the trial for Chidinma.
After paying attention to each parties, Justice Adesanya adjourned the case to November 8, for trial in the trial.
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