The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said that the Department of State Services (DSS) acted on a 2016 watch list request to arrest former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Thursday morning.
The anti-graft agency also said it was in the process of formally lifting the watch list on Okupe before his interception by the secret police on Thursday morning.
The Commission, however, said it will expedite action and remove the Labour Party (LP) chieftain from its watch list.
The DSS had announced Okupe’s arrest this morning at the Lagos airport just as he tried to catch London flight via Virgin Atlantic. The secret police also said the LP chieftain’s arrest was at the instance of EFCC.
However, hours later, Okupe, in a tweet, said he had been released, adding that security agents “apologised” to him for “the error”.
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