The founder and CEO of Super TV, Michael Usifoh Ataga has been murdered, allegedly by his girlfriend in Lagos.
Ataga was found stabbed to death on Friday, his 50th birthday.
The businessman who resides in Banana Island was reported missing on Sunday by concerned friends and family after all efforts to reach him proved abortive.
According to Street Journal, checks at his Victoria Island office showed he wasn’t there either and this put his friends and family, including his wife and children who reside in Abuja in panic mode.
His lifeless body was found on Friday morning in a flat in Lekki phase 1 with multiple stable wounds after several withdrawals were made from his account.
According to reports, he met a girl about two weeks ago and they began a relationship. This despite the fact that he is married to a manager in Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
Usifo who felt more comfortable meeting with his side chic outside his home and hers, to prevent nosey neighbours from prying, rented an Airbnb in Lekki, Lagos where they both checked into before the unfortunate incident.
Following his disappearance, a combined team of concerned friends, family members, the police and DSS operatives from Abuja through the concerted efforts of the wife, tracked down the owner of the Airbnb, who received payment from the side chic’s bank account into which Ataga had previously made a transfer for the payment to.
The apartment was broken into and his lifeless body was found with multiple stabs in his neck, chest and thigh. The robbers also withdrew N5 million from his account.
It was gathered that the girlfriend carried out the murder after she drugged him as the security guards at the rentals said no 3rd party came visiting Ataga and the girlfriend besides a dispatch rider who brought drugs for the girl.
The girlfriend who was last seen on Tuesday when the murder happened, was equally tracked down and arrested alongside the owner of the Airbnb.
After the side chic left the apartment following his gruesome death, money began to disappear from Ataga’s Guaranty Trust Bank account but it was an email from Ataga’s email address asking for a change in his account details, that stopped the withdrawals.
With this, GTBank put an embargo on the account to prevent any further withdrawal.
