The Department of State Services (DSS) has handed over the immediate past Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, Dr. Doyin Okupe, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
DSS operatives arrested Okupe on Thursday morning at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, while on his way to London, United Kingdom.
The former presidential spokesman was billed to fly to London via Virgin Atlantic.
Spokesman for the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, confirmed the handing over of Okupe to the EFCC.
“Doyin Okupe was intercepted by DSS at Terminal 1 of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos this morning at the instance of the EFCC. He has long been handed over to the commission which requested the action,” Afunanya said.
One of Okupe’s lawyers, Tolu Babaleye, in a Facebook said: “The reason according to the 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 a 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 as a human person. This is unfair as the man’s health is fast failing.”
Okupe quit as Director General of Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Council after he was convicted by the court.
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