Chidinma Ojukwu, the alleged killer of Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga, has won a beauty pageant at the Kirikiri correctional facility in Lagos.
Ms Ojukwu was crowned Miss Cell 2022.
The beauty pageant was organised to celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day on March 8.
Other female inmates also showcased their talents and skills in choreography and others.
Ojukwu, who was a 300-level mass communication student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) before the incident, is facing trial before the Lagos State High Court.
The undergraduate and two others, Adedapo Quadri and Chioma Egbuchu, are standing trial on nine counts before Justice Yetunde Adesanya.
While Ojukwu and Quadri are facing eight counts bordering on conspiracy, murder, forgery and stealing, Egbuchu was charged with stealing an iPhone 7 belonging to the late Ataga.
In June 2021, while being paraded by the police, Ojukwu confessed to stabbing Ataga “twice on the neck side” over alleged attempt to have sex with her against her wish.
“I threw the knife to the bed and he was going for it, but I also went for it. He dragged the knife with me and it broke and he fell on the floor,” she had said.
However, in an interview with Crime Fighters in July 2021, Ojukwu said her admittance of stabbing Ataga to the police was borne out of pressure, alleging that a third party must have masterminded the killing after she left the room to get food and drugs.
“I don’t know who must have come into the apartment. Definitely, somebody did that, but I don’t know who that person is. I don’t know what happened when I left the room to buy food,” she said.
