A lie detector might be deployed by the Lagos state police command after 21-year-old Chidinma Ojukwu denied killing SuperTV CEO, Usifo Ataga, days after admitting to the crime several times on camera.

Recall that in a trending video interview with Crime Fighters, the University of Lagos claimed that she had nothing to do with the murder but only found Ataga’s corpse after returning to the service apartment where both of them had lodged at Lekki, Lagos State.

Ojukwu said;

“Before I was leaving, he stood up to lock the door, but when I got in, I was knocking, and when there was no answer, I opened and the door was already opened, as it wasn’t locked; the duvet and pillow were on the floor.

“The couch was facing the door and the bed was stained with blood already. The floor where he was was filled with blood and then music and TV were on. The room was already disarranged like someone broke in, then I saw him on the floor.

“I didn’t know what to do, so I took my things with his things and left. I was afraid; I didn’t know if I had raised the alarm, they would have arrested me for doing it because I and him were just the only people in the room.

“I just left; I was packing my things to leave, then I noticed that my clothes were stained, so I changed to another. I took the bag that contained his ID and documents like bank statements. So, I just packed them and put them into the nylon and left.

“I just did it; it is not like I had something to do with his death. I never had anything to do with his death.”

A senior police officer who reacted to Chidinma Ojukwu's "new story", told PUNCH Metro that a lie detector could be deployed to test if her latest claim was true or not.

The officer said;

"It appears that her lawyers or relatives are teaching her; but this is different from our investigation. This is a fake angle and she cannot dismiss convincing evidence that is already available and recorded, which she herself demonstrated.

“So, this means she is a two-faced person; she tells lies and when the investigation gets to a top level, they will use a lie detector to know whether she is telling the truth or not.”

The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu also said that the UNILAG student is exhibiting traits of an active criminal with her new confession.

The police chief also recalled how she was recorded the night she was arrested and the state CIID.

Odumosu said;


“That is the trait of an active criminal; she was here, we recorded her. The night she was arrested, we recorded her at the state CIID, even the lady that rented the place to her, we recorded her and we have all that. If she now has an afterthought, investigation will prove that.”

Alexclem:
She was not forced into the hotel and she knew what the man wanted her for.

Ablecia:
This girl may not totally be innocent, but it's very difficult to believe she carried the act alone. The lazy Nigerian police should know this and do proper investigation instead of believing that this young girl tied that man up and stabbed him severely to death. I pray we'll get to know the truth in the end

Calitoscassius:
Err.. all that confession can be disputed, When they arrested her they didn't provide her with a lawyer or allow her to speak to a lawyer, they just surrounded her with news reporters and they were the ones interrogating her. The police should have been the ones doing the interrogations with her lawyer present not news reporters. So yes she can claim she was under duress.

So this case is as good as dead, she will be freed.

Calitoscassius:
Yes, I believe she said those things under duress how did people expect her to behave after been accused of murder? Her body language doesn't prove she is a killer, courts do not judge by body language also, they judge by evidence and what can be proved in court. An innocent person can have this same body language.

She coiuld claim she was afraid with all that cameras infront of her and all the humiliations and interogations so she conffessed, conffessions doesn't nercerssarily mean guilty and if she didn't sign any confession she can still change her story.

As i said, they should have provided a lawyer or allow her access to a lawyer (counselling) before the interogations.

Why do you think she changed her story now? Because all that news reporters questionings and confessions infront of cameras were not official nothing was signed and people have different ways of handling pressure and duress, she could also claim that she was pressurised into confessing.

Police should have investigated properly instead of relying on social media and mob justice. They have bungled the investigations already. She will go free alld she need is a good lawyer. Let the courts decide!

saphiere:
Devil is own your side baby girl.

JUNGLE JUSTICE AGAINST CHIDINMA

saphiere:
God is own your side baby girl.

JUSTICE FOR CHIDINMA

Mayng01:
That girl doesn’t deserve mercy. She should be sentenced to death by hanging