onathan’s Attack Dog,
Doyin Okupe Fingered In
Multi-Million Naira
Contract Scam
August 11th, 2012 by Editor
Had President Goodluck
Jonathan run a security check
on his newly appointed senior
special assistant on public
affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, he
would probably not have
offered him a position in his
government. Why? iReports-
ng.com has just gathered that
Okupe who has now been
labeled as an attack dog in the
public sphere is enmeshed in a
multi-million naira contract
fraud over which he has been
under investigation by Nigeria’s
anti-graft police, the EFCC.
Investigations by iReports-
ng.com have so far revealed
that Okupe has since his recent
appointment been moving
round and deploying
presidential influence to stop
the EFCC from going ahead
with the case or pressing
criminal charges against him.
What is the crime Okupe has
been so desperate to cover up
in the last three weeks? A
competent source in EFCC told
iReports-ng.com that the
presidential aide had peddled
his influence during the
administration of his former
boss, President Olusegun
Obasanjo to obtain a contract
of about N300 million in Benue
state during the regime of
Senator George Akume,
collected a mobilisation sum of
about N200 million and
abandoned the project since
then.
It was further learnt that on the
basis of this, the current
governor of Benue state,
Gabriel Suswam petitioned the
EFCC last year. “After our initial
diligent findings on the
allegations contained in the
petition, we were able to
confirm that the man (Okupe )
actually collected the money
and disappeared obviously as
we were told to go and
contest election in Ogun state.
We eventually invited him for
interrogation and his
statements were obtained in
our Lagos office last year after
which he was granted
administrative bail. So, he was
still enjoying the bail with his
case file already referred to
our legal department for legal
advice and possible charges
when he was appointed an aide
to the president”, a top EFCC
official told iReports-ng.com in
Abuja today.
On whether the anti-graft
agency would still go ahead to
press charges against Okupe,
the source said, “I am not in a
position to determine that, only
the chairman can give the final
directive on that.” It was also
learnt that Governor Suswam
who has been putting pressure
on the EFCC to recover his
state funds from Okupe and
prosecute him for criminal
diversion of state funds has
since Okupe’s appointment
gone soft on his push.
Efforts to get Okupe react to
the scandal however prroved
abortive as he failed to pick
calls made to his mobile
telephone number on Saturday
morning. It is yet to be seen
whether the EFCC will also go
silent on the case. Okupe has of
late picked on critics of
President Jonathan especially
Nasir El-Rufai, former minister
of the FCT and Pastor Tunde
Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly,
Lagos.
IReportNg

Culled from www.ekekeee.com/?p=3304

Nobody Holy Pass My Brother

Let's us thank God its millions and not Billions.

I rest my case.

OYINBOGOJU: Nobody Holy Pass My Brother

Let's us thank God its millions and Billions.

I rest my case.

lmao

See werin jona eye they see

nothing new,i wont be surprised if the revelation of all this is coming from the anti gej camp,it is certain they have met their match in the person of okupe,like one comment made earlier it is millions not billion and as far as we are concerned NO NIGERIAN POLITICIAN IS CORRUPT FREEE THEY ALL HAVE DIRTY STINKING SKELETONS IN THEIR CUPBOARDS BUT SOME STINK MORE THAN OTHERS

Whether it is N10 or N1,000,000 let us learn to condemn crime. For God sake, crime is crime.

luluosas: Whether it is N10 or N1,000,000 let us learn to condemn crime. For God sake, crime is crime.

you are right,i agree

Did d op mean 2say Doyin was manipulating d investigation into d contract?D verb manipulated as used in d heading infers Okupe was scammed in d contract,Na wao!

doctokwus: Did d op mean 2say Doyin was manipulating d investigation into d contract?D verb manipulated as used in d heading infers Okupe was scammed in d contract,Na wao!

I tire myself oh! It is Nairaland that change the word from F-i-n-g-e-r-e-d to manipulated. Na wa for nairaland self.