Murder suspect say the police tore her first statement and asked her to sign that she killed Mr Ataga.
Miss Ojukwu, an undergraduate of thewas arraigned alongside two others, Adedapo Quadri and Chioma Egbuchu, on 12 October 2021, on a nine-count charge over the alleged murder of Mr Ataga.
The suspect said that after her initial confession, she was taken to the interrogation room of the State Criminal Investigation Department in Yaba and given a plain statement paper to narrate what transpired at the short-let apartment. According to her, when she insisted that she wasn’t involved in the murder of Mr Ataga, one of the officers in the interogation room hit her from the back.Miss Ojukwu further explained that she was given another blank sheet to write the “truth,” after her first statement was torn.
“And I told him that I wasn’t feeling well and that I needed to rest. And he said that there is no time for that. Then he took the statement from me and he started writing and then Mr Chris handcuffed my both hands to the chair.” She told the court that when they got to Ikeja, Mr Bamidele narrated what he had written in the statement and asked her to narrate it.
“I said I already wrote a statement and I am tired, I have not eaten. She said when I am done I will go and eat.
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