EFCC Senior officers apologised to me, Okupe boasts + What Ex-DG Peter Obi Campaign Council did before he was let off the hook
The immediate past Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe, was reportedly arrested by the Department of State Services at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
This was disclosed on Facebook by one of his lawyers, Tolu Babaleye, on Thursday.
According to him, Okupe was on his way to London.
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He claimed that the DSS asked him to provide court processes where he paid the fine option following his money laundering conviction by the Federal High Court, Abuja.
“The reason according to source is that he was asked to produce evidence that the Federal High Court Abuja has freed him from the case in which he was convicted and paid fine to the knowledge of the whole world and was allowed to go home.
When will this harassment stop? Who is after Dr. Okupe? As of today, the man has no case to answer, I hereby demand that the DSS should release my client immediately as this is a violation of his freedom of movement, right to liberty and dignity of human person. This is unfair as the man’s health is fast failing,” he stated.
Confirming Okupe’s arrest in a statement on Thursday, the spokesman for the DSS, Peter Afunanya, said Okupe was arrested based on a request from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Meanwhile, the erstwhile Director-General of the Peter Obi, Datti Presidential Campaign Council, has been released after he was arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS.
Speaking after he was released, Okupe said the EFCC apologised for the error.
”I was arrested & detained @ the MM int airport, Lagos this morning 12th Jan on my way to UK for medical, yrs of my passport being withheld by the FHC Abuja,” he said.
”I have just left the EFCC office where senior officers in lagos or Abuja apologised to me for the error. OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD abi?”
