I was mistakenly stopped by EFCC - Okupe

Former chief executive of the Labor Party's Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe, says his re-arrest by the Department of State Services at the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was wrong and wrong. shouldn't have happened.

Okupe, who was arrested at Murtala Mohammed International Airport on Thursday morning, said his passport had long been withheld by the Federal High Court in Abuja even before it found him guilty of violating articles of the money laundering law which earned him two and a half years in prison. .

Former Special Assistant for Media and Publicity to President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senior Special Assistant for Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan added that EFCC officers in Lagos and Abuja have apologized for the mistake made during his arrest.

Recounting the ordeal on his Twitter account, Okupe wrote, "I was arrested and detained at Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos this morning, 12th January, on my way to the UK for medical examinations, years after my passport was confiscated from me by the FHC, Abuja.

"I have just left the EFCC office where senior and junior officers from Lagos and Abuja apologized to me for the mistake."

When asked about the action, he asked if it was a professional hazard.

Meanwhile, The PUNCH attempted to seek further clarification of the issue from Okupe, but had not yet received a response from messages sent to his handle at the time of filing of this report.< /p>

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