More suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of late of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga.

Lagos Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu disclosed this during a briefing and parade of over one thousand three hundred and twenty suspects at the Command headquarters in Ikeja.

Although he didn’t give details on the number of suspects arrested and their connection to the murder, Odumosu said the case was progressing and the police would never compromise on it.

Ataga, fifty year old was killed on June fifteen at a shortlet apartment where he was spending weekend with Chidinma Ojokwu twenty-one year suspected to have killed him.

He reminded the public that the prime suspect, Ojokwu, was still a suspect with her rights guaranteed by the constitution, dismissing insinuations the police were attempting to give her a soft landing.

Odumosu said the command had established a case of conspiracy in the murder and arrested more suspects.

Ojokwu, who earlier confessed to have stabbed the deceased to death before stealing his belongings, later refuted her statement claiming she returned from an errand to find him lying in a pool of his blood.

Odumosu said the command arrested Jonathan Nweke, a suspected member of the Eastern Security Network, the military wing of the secessionist group, the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra.

He said the 32-year-old was once arrested by the defunct Special Anti Robbery Squad in Ikeja but he escaped from detention when police formations were attacked during the #EndSARS protests in October 2020, however, said the police rearrested Nweke in the Ojo area of Lagos recently.

Odumosusaid one locally-made Berretta pistol and nine rounds of live 9mm ammunition were recovered from the suspected ESN member.

The CP said, “The suspect is a notorious Vikings confraternity member who has been terrorising Alaba Rago area of Lagos State and its environs. He was arrested with two others sometime in September 2020 for a case of armed robbery by the defunct Special Anti Robbery Squad in Ikeja with a locally-made single-barrel pistol.

The suspect and others escaped from detention during the #EndSARS protests.

“On the 30/06/2021 at about 1200hrs, a team of policemen on patrol attached to the Divisional Headquarters, Ojo, Lagos while on stop and search duty rearrested the suspect at Volks off Badagry Expressway, with a locally-made Beretta pistol and nine rounds of 9mm live ammunition.

“The suspect, who is also suspected to be a member of the proscribed IPOB/ESN, confessed to have recently come back from Awka in Anambra State where he escaped after a cell break; and where he acquired the recovered arms and ammunition.”

Odumosu stated that the suspect “is assisting operatives in the arrest of their gang members now at large”, adding that “investigation is ongoing to arrest the other fleeing members and also to recover more of their arms”.