The funeral service for the late Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga has been held at the Incubator event centre at the Lekki Area of Victoria Island, Lagos.

The mother and wife of the slain billionaire described the death as heartbreaking, callous and wicked.

Ataga was stabbed, robbed and left to die in a pool of his blood in an AirBnB shortlet apartment in the high brow Lekki area of Lagos in June.

The main suspect and his alleged mistress, Chidinma Ojukwu, a 21-year-old, 200 level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos was arrested in connection with the murder.

A service of songs was held for the deceased on Thursday, 30th July as part of his 2-day funeral service.

In her tribute, Usifo’s mum wept that her son did not deserve to die. According to her, “God knows he did not deserve what those people did to him. My heart bleeds for him anytime I remember. He was generous to a fault. It took death for me to know how loved he was.

“He has been robbed of the joy of seeing a project he spent seven years working on.

“He has been denied the joy of seeing his children grow up, go to the university, get married and make him a grandfather. These are the wishes of every parent. His love for his children cannot be quantified. No way !

“He would either hop on the next plane or send me funds to go and see the doctor, and monitor me days. My pain is that I could not monitor him in his last days.”

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On her part, Usifo Ataga’s wife, Brenda described his death as heartbreaking.

Speaking at the funeral also, Brenda lamented that, “Finding out of your demise was the worst news imaginable. My mind had raced through all the possibilities of where you were and what could have happened but death, death wasnt an option.

“The girls and were looking forward to seeing you, to celebrate your milestone. I had imagined how surprised you would be when you walked in to see a place set up for you. I had imagined the infectious smile.

“Now I’m yet to comprehend the stark reality that your life was cut short in your prime, at a renaissance of all you had toiled for. I am lost for words.”

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A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency – Wikipedia