Doyin Okupe

The immediate past Director General of the Labour party, Doyin Okupe has reportedly been arrested by the Department of States Service, DSS at the Muritala.

This is unfair as the man’s health is fast failing,” he stated. As at 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. “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.

Okupe don be ally of Peter Obi since dia time for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before dem join di LP.

Oga Okupe bin tok say e bin spend di money on running di office, payment of staff, and image laundering of di former president and im administration. Doyin Okupe, former presidential adviser, for di Murtala Muhammed International Airport for Lagos. Di statement read. Justice Ojukwu say, di NSA no be financial institution, and say even if na di president wey authorize di funds, e no go fit say dem fit pay di money in cash in violation of money laundering. Di Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) bin arraign Oga Okupe for 2019 on a 59-count charge bordering on alleged money laundering and diversion of N702 million - wey contravene sections 16(1) & (2) of di Money Laundering Act and accepting cash in excess of di threshold wey dey allowed under di Act without going through one financial institution. Oga Okupe bin dey work as di Director-general of di campaign of di presidential candidate of di Labour Party, Peter Obi.

Mr Okupe was on 19 December 2021 jailed for two years after the EFCC successfully prosecuted him for money laundering.

The court also sentenced him to two years imprisonment on counts 35 to 59 with an option of a fine of N500,000. Good journalism costs a lot of money. “I was arrested & detained @ the MMIA, Lagos this morning, 12th Jan on my way to the UK for medicals; years after my passport had been withheld by the FHC Abuja. I just left the EFCC office where Snr Officers in Lagos & Abuja apologised to me for the error. He further said he was also directed by the ONSA ”to be paying N10 million monthly to Okupe for over two years”, which he said was reduced to a monthly N5 million towards the end of 2014 due to paucity of funds. Earlier, Mr Okupe, in a tweet shortly after the news of his arrest broke, confirmed his arrest by the SSS at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos on his way to the United Kingdom (UK) for medicals.Mr Okupe, who was handed over to the EFCC, said he was later released with an apology by the anti-graft agency.

DSS has reportedly arrested Doyin Okupe, former Director-General of the Labour Party's Presidential Campaign Council.

In 2019, he was charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on a 59-count charge bordering on money laundering and diversion of funds to the tune of N240m from the then NSA, Sambo Dasuki. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu held that the prosecution made out a case of money laundering against Okupe and awarded the total sum of N13m in fines against him. A Federal High Court in Abuja had convicted Okupe, a former Special Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, over the diversion of arms funds from the Office of the National Security Adviser.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed that the arrest of Doyin Okupe, a former director-general of the...

I just left the EFCC office where senior officers in Lagos & Abuja apologised to me for the error,” he tweeted. He has long been handed over to the commission which requested for the action. A terse statement signed by Peter Afunnaya, spokesperson of the Service read, “Doyin Okupe was intercepted by the DSS at Terminal 1 of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos this morning at the instance of the EFCC.

The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested Doyin Okupe, a chieftain of the Labour Party. According to a statement on Thursday...

“Doyin Okupe was intercepted by the DSS at Terminal 1 of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos this morning at the instance of the EFCC. [He was arraigned alongside two companies](https://www.thecable.ng/efcc-files-59-count-money-laundering-charge-against-okupe/amp) – Value Trust Investment Ltd and Abrahams Telecoms Ltd. He has long been handed over to the Commission which requested for the action.

On Thursday morning, the Department of State Services (DSS) arrested Doyin Okupe, former Director-General of the Labour Party's Presidential Campaign.

However, Okupe via a tweet has stated that he has been released from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crime. Also, reacting to the development, the spokesman of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren in terse statement said the Service acted on a watch-list request issued on July 18, 2016, over six years before his recent conviction on money laundering charges by the Federal High Court, Abuja. His arrest was made known to the public through his lawyer, Tolu Babaleye.