EFCC’s response to Doyin Okupe’s detention by the DSS

Regarding Doyin Okupe’s detention, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has made a statement.

The Peter Obi-Datti Baba Ahmed Campaign’s former director general was taken into custody earlier on Thursday.

At Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed International Airport, the Department of State Services (DSS) took him into custody.

The former presidential advisor acknowledged traveling to the UK for medical care.

The head of media for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said that the DSS told the commission about the interception.

The security group responded to a watchlist request sent on July 18, 2016, the representative said.

That was six years before Okupe was found guilty of money laundering by the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Before his interception, “the Commission was in the process of formally lifting the watch list and will speed up measures in this regard,” Uwujaren said.

Okupe, who has since been set free, said that in Lagos or Abuja, top EFCC officials “apologized for the mistake.”