How girlfriend allegedly killed Super TV CEO in Lagos, withdraws over N5m from account
More details have emerged on the death of Micahel Usifo Ataga.
The person implicated in his murder has also been identified, according to a report by CKN News.
Ataga, the CEO of Super TV and a director with Super, who resided in Banana Island was reported missing on Sunday, June 13, 2021 by concerned friends and family after all efforts to reach him proved abortive.
Checks at his Victoria Island office had showed he wasn’t there either and this had put everyone in a panic mode, including his wife and children who reside in Abuja.
Unfortunately, his lifeless body was reportedly found Thursday morning in a flat in Lekki phase 1 with multiple stable wounds after several withdrawals were made from his account.
Usifo who would have been 50 years old on June 17, 2021 had met a girl about two weeks ago and they began a relationship.
The report said that this was despite the fact that he was married to a manager in Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
Usifo who reportedly felt more comfortable meeting with his “side chic” outside his home and hers, to prevent nosey neighbours from prying, rented an Airbnb in Lekki, Lagos where they both checked into before the unfortunate incidence.
Following his disappearance, a combined team of concerned friends, family members, the police and DSS operatives all the way from Abuja, through the concerted efforts of the wife, tracked down the owner of the Airbnb, who received payment from the side chic’s bank account into which Ataga had previously made a transfer for the payment.
The apartment was broken into and that was where he was found dead with multiple stabs in his neck, chest and thigh.
N5 million was reportedly withdrawn from his account before they killed Ataga.
Apparently, the side chic carried out the murder after she must have drugged him as the security guards at the rentals said no third party came visiting Ataga and the “side chic” besides a dispatch rider who brought drugs for the girl.
The side chic who was last seen on Tuesday when the murder happened, was equally tracked down and arrested alongside the owner of the Airbnb.
Many of Ataga’s friends have expressed shock as to how the side chic was able to pull the dastardly act all alone as Ataga was said to have been an amateur boxer who was very strong.
After the side chic left the apartment following his gruesome death, money began to disappear from Ataga’s Guaranty Trust Bank account and it was after an email from Ataga’s email address askinf for a change in his account details, that the withdrawals stop.
With thiis, GTBank put an embargo on the account to prevent any further withdrawal.
Investigations is still on and the case is still unfolding.
