'No Car Key, No Chase Me' - Chidinma Is A Symptom Of Rot In Society - Activist Reno Omokri Says

Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, has jumped on the bandwagon of commenters on the trending issue of the stab to death of Super TV CEO, Michael Usifo Ataga, by a 21-year-old lady, Chidinma Adaorah. Chidinma, a 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) was earlier reported by Vanguard to have been tracked and arrested in her apartment at 57, Akinwunmi Street, Alagomeji, Yaba area of Lagos, Wednesday, after she left the short-let apartment at 19, Adewale Oshin Street, Lekki, Phase 1, Lagos, where the incident happened.

A blood-stained cloth she was suspected to have worn on the day Ataga was murdered, was discovered during a search of her apartment by policemen.

Commenting on the development, Reno Omokri in a series of tweets said; “Everybody is in a rush to demonise Chidinma.

“But it takes 2 to tango. She was 21. He was 50. A 29 year age gap. She could have been his daughter. How many of you condemning her were mature at 21?

“She erred. But is also a victim. Of bad parenting and a bad society

“…note that Nigeria prioritises wealth over morals. We are a society that celebrated a billionaire, who already had a harem, for marrying his granddaughter’s age mate.

“That was our own Cinderella story. And we are surprised we ended up with Chidinma?

“Chidinma has obviously been corrupted by the ‘small girl with a big God’ phenomenon. If not that their drug induced orgy ended in murder, the man could have been funding Chidinma’s lifestyle and she would be motivating young girls on Nigerian blogs with her success.

“Where do you think all these surgically enhanced ‘small girl with a big god’ motivators get money to inflate their buttocks and breasts?

“They claim to have businesses you can never see. In truth, they are senior Chidinmas, with their own ‘big gods’ in Banana Island.

“Nigeria should wake up and smell the coffee. Chidinma is a symptom of the rot in society. We are now a society of ‘no car key, no chase me’, and ‘no Range Rover, no arrange me as your lover’.

“The Chidinmas that are not caught are more than the ones that are caught”.

According to Omokri; “Money is like yeast. Without yeast, you can still make bread and wine. But the process will take longer and be more laborious.

“Without money, you can still be happy. But the process may take longer and require more effort. Money promotes happiness.

“We must understand that our society has now become one where if a man has enough sugar to spread, he will have many daughters and become a sugar father Abraham.

“We worship money too much. And it is putting a strain on our youth. Let’s address this!”

Meanwhile, narrating how she killed the Super TV CEO, Chidinma explained; “

“I met him about four months ago through a friend. But that was the first time we would stay together.

“He told me to get a short let apartment. I searched online and sent it to him. He said I should go and check it out and thereafter, he paid for it. That was on Sunday, June 13, 2021.

“On Monday, we were together, drinking and smoking. We had fun. Later I went out to get food for both of us. On Tuesday, he tried to make advances at me, but I told him I was tired and he became violent. Eventually, he had his way.

“Towards afternoon, we ordered for smoke and blue fees together, that was what we took.

“We ate food and became high. I wasn’t happy with the first one he did. So, I sat on my own, smoking, drinking and eating.

“He was on the couch but later came to where I sat watching television. I told him I wasn’t happy with what he did the first time.

“I told him, ‘you don’t help or assist me but yet, you just want to be playing with me around’. He gave me his ATM card and said I could go and withdraw any amount I wanted. He also gave me the pin.

“But I told him that was not what I meant by assistance. He became violent and tried to get to me, but I resisted him and tried to defend myself.

“At some point, he hit my head on the wall and I retaliated. He held me and was choking me as I leaned on the cabinet.

“In defence, I stretched out my hand and collected a knife and stabbed him in the neck. I had attempted severally to leave before then, but he stopped me.

Withdrawals

“Contrary to a rumour that I collected N5 million from his account, it was only N380,000 I withdrew from his account. I don’t have that kind of money in my account.

“I went home straight without reaching out to anyone. He was the one that gave me his ATM card and pin after I complained that he wasn’t taking care of me. I wanted to use the money I withdrew from his account to pay my fees.

“He was the one that invited the drug guy, he was always with the drug. In the last four months I have known him, we haven’t gone out like that. I felt disappointed when the Police came to my parents’ house to arrest me by 9 pm on Wednesday.”

When asked if her parents were aware of her relationship with the deceased, she said: “ No. I told my parents that I was going for an ushering job. I used to do freelance ushering jobs.

“I checked into the short-let apartment with a foreign number, not because I had it all planned out or because I didn’t want to be traced. The foreign number was what I used in contacting the lady that is in charge of renting out the short-let apartment. I used an app to generate the foreign number.”
How the deceased was discovered

Explaining how the deceased was discovered, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, said: “ On June 15, 2021, the suspect, Chidinma, checked into a short let apartment in Lekki with the deceased, Michael Ataga.

“They were there together as friends, until Tuesday when she left the facility with the man still inside.

“When the man didn’t come out on Tuesday and Wednesday, the workers in charge of evacuating trash bins went in to carry out their normal duty, only to discover that the door was ajar.

“When they got in they discovered the victim in the pool of his blood, wearing only boxers.

“She cut off the artery that supplies blood through the neck and also on his stomach and cleverly changed her clothes before leaving.

“She also disappeared with the deceased’s ATM card, which she claimed he gave to her voluntarily alongside the pin, which she went further to make withdrawals.

“She was traced to 57, Akinwunmi Street, Alagomeji, Yaba area of Lagos on June 23, 2021. We have been able to recover his driver’s licence and complimentary cards in her bags, as well as clothes and some personal effects that the man came with.

“Also recovered were a Bank Statement Account, one Nigeria International Passport with No.B50010434 belonging to the suspect, one fake driver’s licence bearing Mary Johnson with the suspect’s photograph, one National Identification Card bearing the suspect’s name, one UBA ATM debit card bearing the suspect’s name and one University of Lagos ID card bearing the suspect’s name.” Reacting, a source at UNILAG said: “The last time she came to school was before Covid-19 lockdown. She has never written 300-Level exams with her cohorts. She has never stepped her feet on the soil of UNILAG since the commencement of this semester early last month.”