The Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square yesterday admitted in evidence an audio recording of a phone conversation between Chidinma Ojukwu and the security guard, Abubakar Mohammed, at the rented short service apartment where the chief executive officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, was murdered.
The trial judge, Justice Yetunde Adesanya admitted the exhibit after dismissing the objections raised against the admissibility of the recorded conversation by Chidinma Ojukwu’s lawyer.
Ojukwu was arraigned before the court alongside one Adedapo Quadri on an eight-count bordering on the offences of murder, forgery and stealing.
The state also arraigned Chidinma’s sister, Chioma Egbuchu, from whom the late Ataga’s iPhone 7, was said to have been recovered on one count of receiving stolen property.
They all pleaded not guilty to the charge.
At the resumed hearing of the matter yesterday, the Lagos State deputy director for Public Prosecutions, Mrs. Adenike Oluwafemi, sought to tender the audio recording through the ninth prosecution witness, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Olusegun Bamidele.
However, the first defendant’s counsel, Onwuka Egwu, objected to the tendering of the CD, because Bamidele was not the maker of the CD.
