Forensic expert confirms blood on Chidinma’s dress matches Usifo Ataga’s DNA

The trial of an undergraduate student, Chidinma Ojukwu, for the murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, continued on Tuesday at the Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Lagos Island with the testimony of a forensic expert, Dr. Richard Somiari.

Dr Somiari who testified as the eleventh prosecution witness, told the court that the DNA blood sample found on Chidinma’s red dress matched that of the victim – Ataga.

Led in evidence by the Lagos State Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Mrs Adenike Oluwafemi, Somiari, a director and consultant for the Lagos State DNA and Forensic Centre, told the court that he had practised in the area of forensic for 15 years and had conducted over 500 forensic tests.

The forensic analyst also told the court that concerning Chidinma’s case, his office received 21 different items on different days from their DNA centre staff members.