Okupe stated. “The NSA who gave me the money is alive in his house, I who took the money I am being convicted”

Doyin Okupe, the former Senior Special Assistant on Media for former President Goodluck Jonathan, has discussed the case in which he was found guilty of accepting cash exceeding the Act’s permitted threshold without going through a financial institution and violating sections 16(1) and (2) of the Money Laundering Act. CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>

In a video recently shared on YouTube by Arise TV, Okupe said that the money he received was at the instruction of the then-president, within his rights. He pointed out that the person who authorized the payments, the former National Security Adviser (NSA), is alive and hasn’t been found guilty of any offense. He argued that since the money came from the government’s budget and not an irregular account, he should not have been convicted

In Okupe’s words: “The NSA who gave me the money is alive in his house, I who took the money I am being convicted. There is no court of law in Nigeria that has proven that the NSA is guilty of any offense, so how can I?”.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>