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I think home. Okay, home. While we're talking home, the name, you know, Chidimah Juku comes to mind as well as Mr Attaga, CEO, former CEO of Super TV. We all heard the unfortunate thing that occurred, how he was found dead or reported dead June 15th, 2021 in a shot-let apartment. And the prime suspect, you know, for that murder is this 21-year-old Chidimah Juku, who's supposed to be a student of mass communication in University of Lagos. So when that news broke out, it was a lot. It created quite a buzz in Nigeria's social media space because people were wondering, you know, how exactly she had the, you know, audacity to kill someone. I have quotes from Chidimah to refresh our memory regarding her confession to the media that she killed Mr, you know, Osifu Attaga. She said, I took a knife and I stabbed his neck. I approached the door and he followed me. I stabbed him twice on the neck and I threw the knife to the bed. I was going for it. He was going for it, but I also went for it. He dragged the knife with me. It broke and he fell on the floor. She basically admitted here that she stabbed him at least twice. Now there's a new viral video that we've seen and it's Chidimah Juku recanting everything she said, you know, to the media a few weeks ago. And she's now saying, quote, I never had anything to do with his death. I don't know who might have come into the apartment. Definitely somebody did, but I don't know who that person is. I don't know what happened when I left to buy food. I don't know. So she's basically saying now, changing everything she said that, you know, they were both having a good time in the house and she left to go buy some more food. She came back. She saw the man in the pool of blood and she doesn't know who might have come into the room. So I'm really wondering what really happened between the time she made her first confession and this seeming reality TV show that was seen now because, you know, the police had assured us that she was in police custody, you know, apparently being the prime suspect in a murder case. But the video we've seen shows that she obviously was not in police, you know, detention. She was free. She had packed her hair in some kind of, it was just weird in my opinion, you know. And now we have statements from the police, the police spokesperson, legal state police command, who you are, the job who's now trying to deny the same. The video is old. The video is fake news. It should be dismissed. The video is false. But we don't think that's the facts because everything she said basically contradicts what she mentioned in the first video. And in fact, this video that we've, this new video that we've seen, asked questions to say, Oh, but during that interview, you said this, meaning that this new video was seen occurred after the first one. So it's a, it's a whole lot of questions. It's mind-boggling. And, you know, that's just what the facts are saying right now. All right. So let's quickly just play a short clip from that video. And then I will share my thoughts on where we're back. Before I was leaving, I stood up to lock the door. But when I got in, I was knocking as there was no answer. I opened the door, that was already open. Like it wasn't locked. And the duvet was on the floor, plus pillows. The, the bed, the couch was facing the door. And the bed was stained with blood already. And the floor where it was was blood. And then music was on, the TV was on. The room was already disarranged, like someone broke in. Then I saw him on the floor. I didn't know what to do. I took my things with his thing and left. I was just, I was afraid. I didn't know if I have raised a lamb or love. I risked the need for doing it because I, and him, were just the only people in the room. I was, I just, I just left. I was packing my things to leave. Then I noticed that my clothes were stained. So I changed it to another. I took the bag that contained his ID and documents, bank statements. All right. Well, that's the latest video from the prime suspect, Chidi Mahojuku. In my response, I'll first of all start by saying the, you know, a lot of PPROs, you know, and persons in certain positions in Nigeria, really just feel Nigerians don't have sense. And that's why they put out statements, you know, like that, you know, with outright denial and, you know, completely dismiss what we can see with our eyes. You know, same way when incidents happen on the streets and the police PPRO come to say, oh, you know, that's not exactly what played out, you know, you know, the policeman, you know, one thing or the other. You know, they seem to think that Nigerians really don't have sense. And so whatever they decide to dismiss can just be easily dismissed like that. But this, you know, once again, and I reacted to this yesterday online by asking if this was a TV series, if, you know, if she's going to be the next big brother, if what exactly is going on and why is a prime suspect in a murder case being interviewed left and right. Before we even get into, exactly before we even get into the, you know, how she's recounting her statements now, whether, you know, she was under duress when she made the first confession or not. My question, first of all, is why is she, you know, being interviewed left and right, like a celebrity? Is she a celebrity killer? Is she what exactly is going on? Did Evans get the same interviews? Did Uduak Akman get the same, you know, media interview, media rounds? Because that's what they call them. When you leave the big brother house, you go for media rounds. So, you know, did they also get the same media rounds when, you know, they were accused? But this really is, you know, is showing how we do policing in Nigeria, criminal justice system. You have a media trial. They find your duty by the media. They call in press to interview you and case closed. There's no further investigation. There's nothing more that you hear about the case. And that's why we have found ourselves here. Because they assume that, you know, the Nigerian public has already found her duty. And so they might not be any need to, you know, investigate any further. They might not be need to ask any, you know, further questions and find out who might have been an accomplice or what may have happened, you know, go through our call logs and those different questions. Maybe they have done, I have no idea. But if they had, then maybe, you know, she wouldn't be granting these interviews. And why is a suspect being let out of a police station? Because I don't know if they have a recording studio in any police station in Lagos. I doubt that. So why is a suspect being let out of a police station to go grant interviews? Or why is a TV crew being let into a police station to set up, do her makeup, fix her hair, to grant an interview and recount the statement? It was a whole set up, really. Did you see the black background? Yeah. So does Chita Maoudry could not have a lawyer who should be guiding her through what she should be saying, who should be, you know, asking her to stay silent and only speak to her lawyer? These are some of the things that suspects in Nigeria do not have. Those are some of the privileges that suspects in Nigeria do not absolutely have, if you're not very, very rich maybe. There should be a lawyer who should have told her to keep absolutely quiet until they have a strong case that they are going to present in court. This shouldn't even take this long. She should have gone to court, just as an off strike. So she should have been to court by now. I'm not sure why there is no further investigation or why she is not even in court defending herself, either pleading guilty or not guilty. So it's just completely disgusting, you know, seeing these things play out the way that they are playing. And disrespectful to the person who has been killed and the family of the person who has been killed, to see that the murder suspect is giving so much, you know, attention and so much, you know, primetime TV for absolutely no reason. Okay, the only question I have to ask now is where exactly is Chidemojuku right now? Because if she had been able to record a video once she's supposed to be in police custody because an investigation is still going on into a murder, where exactly is she right now? She probably, I have no idea, you know, so she's probably in police custody or maybe out of police custody. I have really no idea, you know, why these things are happening. And I said yesterday that, you know, it might be a little risky to put it out. But if it was a young man who killed a woman in Nigeria, I don't think the conversation will be going this way. I don't think this level of, it almost shows sympathy for the suspect. I don't think that we will be having this level of sympathy for any man in Nigeria who may have killed somebody's wife or killed a woman. He would be demonized to the end, you know, and called a complete rapist or whatever word that you want to use on him. That's the way it always plays out. But suddenly, you know, she's getting me there around. She might be in the next big brother. She might go for, you know, be one of the judges in the next Nigerian Idol. I have no idea where this goes or how, you know, the description. All right, I don't think it's a go that far. Now listen to this. But when you talk about bona fide, bona fide stars in the National Basketball Association, we can pick at least 15 to 20 of them. Half of them on this damn roster. There's no excuse to lose to Nigeria. Some dude gave Namdi, who goes while I gave Vincent for the Miami Heat, or Caleb, or God, or Namor, however the hell you pronounce his name. You give up 60 points on threes. Excuse me. You can do better than that. And oh, by the way, let's also look at Greg Popovich because he's a five-time champion. One of the elite coaches this game has ever seen. Hasn't looked the same since Tim Duncan retired. A little bit different now. So let's point to everything and let's understand still and all, you have enough to win gold. It should not require that roster spot. One to 15 is the absolute best that the NBA and USA basketball can send. We have enough great players. They just got to care enough and be focused and we got to know that we got the right coaching. Oh my. That was Steven Smith of ESPN during first take. He basically, you know, if you listen to that carefully and how we pronounce Nigerian's names and how we spoke about the Nigerian basketball team, you'd obviously feel an air of, you know, racial superiority saying who is the Nigerian basketball team that the US team cannot beat. It had that air of him, that air around him. And it really is very, there's really words that I need to use to describe this very condescending the way he spoke about the Nigerian US team. This is not the 80s. The way he spoke about us as though, you know, we should never have won. I mean, this is a fair game. It's a, you know, game with fair rules. The Nigerian team won. They won fair and square. So the way he spoke about it and then went to pronounce our names to say, oh, the US should have won. Steven Smith, the US should have won. That who, who are the Nigerian team to have, you know, it just really is very condescending, like I said. And he's, he's really receiving backlash, you know, Nigerians, diaspora Nigerians in the US, Niger, even people on that team have been criticizing. How would he say there's no excuse to lose to Nigeria? There's an excuse. Some other people played better than you, worked harder than you. So I don't, so by the way, the Nigerian team beat Argentina again yesterday. Exactly. Good news. We caught a margin. So I don't think the challenge really is him saying that the USA US team shouldn't have lost, you know, you know, everybody will say that if, if Liverpool plays Brighton, you know, and loses three goes to one, everybody would say that, you know, how can you lose to, you know, come on Brighton and all of Albion? You know, how can you lose to this small team? It's the way he said it. So I don't think that's the challenge. I think the challenge really is with the, the, you know, almost racial expression with regards, you know, pronouncing Nigerian names. That's where the challenge really is. You know, if you look at the responses from the, you know, the players and the Tigers and every other person who has commented, that's where the focus is. It is part of, you know, our work as journalists and people who are in the media to always do everything possible to ensure that you pronounce a name properly. I remember that we've almost gotten in trouble here on screen because we mispronounced names or because we, you know, didn't find out the right pronunciation of names from the Southwest or from the North or from Plateau State or wherever before going on screen. It's part of your responsibilities as a journalist and as a person in the media to ensure that you pronounce a person's name because that's their identity. So that's where the challenge is, you know, with him, you know, brushing through their names and almost mocking their names in that way. Disregarding the fact that, you know, these people have fought, you know, and worked very, very hard to ensure that they got that victory. And at the same time, that is their identity and that is who they are. And that should be respected. So this also shows that Americans, so black Americans who always scream about racial injustice and scream about racism, to a very, very large extent, are very racially, very, very racist towards African Americans, you know, who live in America. I've seen, you know, and even a friend of mine who lives in the U.S. had shown a video where his fellow black man, you know, but the only difference is that that one is a black American, he is a Nigerian, racially abused him multiple, multiple times. They have the video on my phone, called him the N-word multiple times, called him a monkey, called him, you know, all those names. They're both black, by the way, but called him all those names and it really... So because you have an American accent, then you're... So it basically shows that, you know, the same things that black Americans always complain about, you know, when a white man breathes too hard, they scream, you know, racial injustice. They have that same attitude. A lot of them have that same attitude towards Africans. So if you're not a core and a true black American, you very likely would be seen as beneath the regular black American. If you are from Kenya or Nigeria or Ghana, you are not seen at par with the regular black Americans. You're perpetuating the same thing that you complain about is what, you know, and that's what Steven A. Smith has shown there, because it's not just about mispronouncing their names or being angry that the USA lost. That's exactly what he's showing. He's basically saying that who are these, you know, weird names, you know, where did they come from, you know, and, you know, he's basically expressing the fact that he doesn't think that these people in any way with their very, very weird names, you know, should beat the United States. It's not about the game here. The challenge is not about the game. The Nigerian basketball team has shown that they truly deserve that victory by the victory that they had last night. A bit of Argentina, like a 20 point margin, I think, 90 to 71 or 94, 71. It was a pretty big margin, which is, and Argentina is the fourth best team in the world. So they've shown that they truly deserve that victory. That's not his challenge or that's not where the backlash is coming from. It is the seeming racial expression that Steven A. Smith put out yesterday. And yes, I know he's always been a very, very controversial sports anchor, but you can't, there are things that you should never, never, never do. If I go and air this morning and I say and I pronounce the name of one of the House of Rep members and I completely, you know, say, you know, ate the wrong way and then say I don't care how his name is pronounced, the NBC should send me a caution. In fact, where we work, I should be cautioned for that. But that's exactly what he did yesterday. And it just tells that black Americans are also very, very, very racist towards Americans, basically, even if they're both black. Yes, that's all we have for you today on Top Trending. Let's take a break here and we'll return with Off the Prest.