Barrister Frankin Ufu, a cousin of the late Usifo Ataga, has said that his suspected killer, Chidinma Ojukwu, could not have carried out the act alone.
He said the way Ataga was tied and stabbed suggested that she could not have done it alone.
Chidinma had earlier said she stabbed him to death during a fight but she has later said she was not the one who killed him.
In an interview with ‘Crime Fighter’, the cousin said:
‘I have had the very regrettable privilege of seeing that dead body five time. My cousin’s hands were tied so badly that the rope entered his skin. The rope is right there as an exhibit with the police.
“That binding could not have been done by that lady alone, not possible, even if he was drugged. It is not possible because I saw the lady and I saw my cousin and I said this is not possible.
“Apart form the fact that he was tied, there were multiple stabs on his body. So that story of two stabs and neck is not true. He was stabbed in other places, his leg. In fact in Yaba mortuary, the attendants were so dramatic that they told us clearly. The stabbing here (touching his stomach) was so bad it is a hole. The guy stuck his two fingers into my cousin’s body in my presence. He was stabbed here(touching the right side of his neck” deliberately twice and on his body multiply”
