EFCC invites Atiku’s spokesman over N100m Dasuki fund | Thenigerialawyer

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited a
spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Dr Doyin
Okupe, for allegedly receiving N100m from embattled former National
Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd.).

Apart from allegedly receiving money from Dasuki, the former
presidential aide is also accused of receiving dubious contracts to
the tune of N76m from a local council in Niger State.

However, Okupe said he was invited by the EFCC for cybercrime,
stalking and alleged hate speech.

He said EFCC officials stormed his Lagos home on Saturday and
attempted to take him to their office but he resisted.

Okupe said, “The EFCC just stormed my house in Ilupeju Lagos
asking me to follow them. No letter. No letter of invitation; no
warrant. Saturday!

“The men from the EFCC left my house finally after I promised
them that I would be in their office on Monday.

“The officers finally agreed to leave on the promise I would see
them on Monday. Offence: cybercrime.”

In a separate interview with our correspondent, Okupe said he
would honour the invitation, adding that he would not be
intimidated.

The acting spokesman for the EFCC, Mr Tony Orilade, said Okupe
was invited for alleged fraud and not for hate speech.

Orilade said contrary to Okupe’s claims, when detectives got to
his house, he did not make himself available.

“When our men got to his house, he was said not to be around. We
left a message asking him to report on Monday. He is being
investigated for alleged fraud and not cybercrime.”

Okupe had admitted publicly that he received N100m from Dasuki
based on Jonathan’s instructions.

Okupe, who served as Jonathan’s spokesman from 2012 to 2015,
added that he received N10m monthly from Dasuki to pay salaries and
run a weekly programme on NTA.

Okupe, who was also quizzed for allegedly receiving some dubious
contracts from a local council in Niger State to the tune of
N76.5m, said his company, Romix soilfix, was one of the over 20
construction companies that were duly awarded contracts for rural
roads some five years ago by the Niger State Government.

According to investigators at the anti-graft agency, Okupe was
first invited on June 22, 2016 over fresh allegations bordering on
illicit payments received from the account of the Office of the
National Security Adviser which is domiciled at the Central Bank of
Nigeria.