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BREAKING: Doyin Okupe Regains Freedom, Speaks On His Arrest

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January 12, 2023

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BREAKING: Doyin Okupe Regains Freedom, Speaks On His Arrest

Doyin Okupe

Doyin Okupe, the immediate past Director-General (DG) of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), announced on Thursday that he has left the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) office in Lagos.

On Thursday morning, Okupe was apprehended by the Department of State Services (DSS) at Lagos’ Muritala Mohammed International Airport.

Following his money laundering conviction by the Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja, the DSS asked the former presidential aide to provide court processes in which he paid the fine option.

Subsequently, he was handed over to the EFCC, with the Spokesman of the Service, Peter Afunanya, confirming Okupe “was intercepted at the instance of the EFCC”.

Okupe tweeted after his release: “I was arrested and detained @ the MM int airport, Lagos this morning 12th Jan on my way to UK for medicals yrs of my passport being withheld by the FHC Abuja.

“I hv just left the efcc office where snr officers in lagos & Abuja appologised to me for the error. OCCUPATIONAL HAZZARD abi?” he wrote on his known Twitter handle.

See his tweet below;

I was arrested & detained @ the MMIA, Lagos this morning, 12th Jan on my way to 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 appologised to me for the error.
OCCUPATIONAL HAZZARD abi?
— Doyin (@doyinokupe) January 12, 2023