Doyin Okupe, intercepted and arrested by the DSS at Lagos airport

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According to Tolu Babaleye, the immediate past Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe, was on Thursday, arrested by the Department of State Services at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. Tolu Babaleye is one of the lawyers of Doyin Okupe.

Tolu said, Okupe was on his way to London, and he added that while he was intercepted, the DSS asked him to provide court processes where he paid the fine option following his money laundering conviction by the Federal High Court, Abuja.

“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.

“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 of human person. This is unfair as the man’s health is fast failing,” he stated.

Confirming Okupe’s arrest in a statement on Thursday, the spokesman for the DSS, Peter Afunanya, said Okupe was arrested based on a request from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

He noted Okupe had been handed over to the EFCC.

The statement 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. He has long been handed over to the Commission which requested the action. Okupe was billed to fly to London via Virgin Atlan.”

Source: punchng.com

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