Doyin Okupe Engages In Another Twitter Fight (Snapshots)
Lol..see the response he got below and his reply.
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Monday, 18 July 2016
Why I Recieved N100 Million From Dasuki-Doyin Okupe Defends Himself Following EFCC Invitation
The facts of my case with EFCC.
In my interactions with EFCC I have been asked to explain 3 things only so far.
1. Why I received N50m from the Fmr NSA, at the onset of my appointment, and what I used it for.
2. Why I was being paid N10m monthly by the ONSA.
3. Why I received another N50m from the NSA in October 2014.
These are the ONLY subject of interrogation with the commission so far.
My explanations.
1. The initial N50m was approved by the President to be paid to me from His Security vote. N10m was to furnish my rented living apartment and another N10m for my office.
The balance N30m was approved as take off grant.
2. The N10m I received from the ONSA monthly was to run my office, pay salaries of staffs, including overheads, pay expenses for our numerous press conferences, pay for publications in newspapers, magazines, local and foreign, television programs, bulletins, and media consultants who assist and facilitate our work. I had about 23 staff, 11 were graduates out of which 5 were masters degrees holders. Details were submitted to EFCC.
3. The second N50m was approved again by Mr President when I reported to him that the monthly allowance has been cut from N10m to N5m and that I was no longer in position to keep running a 1hr NTA network program called INSIGHT which was aired 9-10am every Friday. We paid NTA about N1.2m monthly for airtime. Two presenters were paid N600m monthly. We paid for tapes and Editting per program. Besides we also pay honorarium for guests either directly or inform of hotel bills for those outside Abuja, or transportation. This cost averagely N500,000 weekly or about N 2m monthly. All in all we spend about N4m monthly on the program. Mr President promised to help with the expenses. About a few months later when we had incurred some debts the NSA sent me this N50m which was to cover the cost of the program for 12 months(12×N4m=N48m)
News paper Trial
I saw strange figures like N 162m fraud, 85m fraud etc. Also mention was made of dubious payments of N13m, N65m from contracts supposedly obtained from chachanga LGA in Niger state.
The Fact.
My company Romix soilfix was one of the over 20 construction companies who were duly awarded contracts for rural roads some 5yrs ago by the Niger state govt. Due to lack of funds contractors were paid irregularly making the job to drag. The job is still on going. The relationship of this to my service as snr special assistant to President is still not clear.
My Health status.
I confided in the officers of the commission about my health situation for them to understand why where and how I sleep was important to my overall well being.
Without clearance or authorisation by me this information was revealed to the media. I woke up to hear it on radio broadcast nationwide and was published in many newspapers. This is a sad development and a definite breach of the confidence I reposed on the commission as an institution of government.
I was born with sinus bradycadia, a non disease based slowness of the heart. It precluded me from vigorous exercise from childhood but I have by God's Grace been able to live a normal and active life. With age the slowness grew worse and life threatening. I sought medical help and went through a procedure at the Arrhythmia cardiac Research center in Atlanta, where this defect was corrected. Its just a year ago and I am still under satellite monitor from the USA. This is what I revealed to the efcc and they made it a public issue.
I have been in public service in more than 20years, because of my pedigree, I have by deliberate policy avoided anything that will bring shame to me, my name and family.
In spite of my high level involvement in politics and government, I have never done directly or indirectly any federal government contracts. In the whole of this world I have only two house. One in Lagos and another in my home town. I have no house elsewhere including Abuja.
It us a pity that the situation in the country is so bad that everybody believes that there are no men with honour in politics or government. It is not true. I have submitted all my personal and company accounts to efcc. I have nothing to hide.
I am proud of who I am and how far the Lord has taken me. My present travails and trial will become a good testimony for me and my family in Jesus Name. He later updated...
Correction.
The lead presenter on Insight earned N400,000 and the second presenter earned N200,000. Total N600,000. Not N600m.
The Monthly allowance was not my salary. It was meant to be used to run the office. 40% went on salaries. Salary sheets with names and offices of employees were submitted to efcc.
I was paid by salary of N853,000 per month through the office of the SGF
The Monthly allowance was not my salary. It was meant to be used to run the office. 40% went on salaries. Salary sheets with names and offices of employees were submitted to efcc.
I was paid by salary of N853,000 per month through the office of the SGF
Friday, 20 May 2016
Jonathan Approved N400m Paid To Metuh, Says Okupe
A former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, appeared before a Federal High Court in Abuja to testify in defence of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh.
Metuh and his firm allegedly used the fund for the PDP’s presidential campaign ahead of the 2015 election.
Among other charges preferred against the defendants were money laundering allegations involving a cash transaction of $2m without passing through a financial institution.
Okupe, who appeared before Justice Okon Abang as the third defence witness, said the payment of the N400m to Metuh by the NSA office was authorised by Jonathan.
He said the instruction given by Jonathan for the payment of the money to Metuh, followed a presentation which Metuh’s campaign team made to the then President at the Presidential Villa.
Okupe, who was led in evidence by the lead defence counsel, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), said he attended the meeting during which a consultant engaged by Metuh made the presentation for the PDP’s campaign strategy.
He said Jonathan himself told him after the meeting that he had authorised the payment of the N400m to Metuh.
The witness said, “After the usual exchange of pleasantries, Mr. President (Jonathan) gave a short briefing in line with what I said earlier.
“He then asked Olisa Metuh and his consultant to make their presentation which they did. After the presentation, there were comments from those who attended the meeting.
“The presentation was approved for action and the President said Mr. Metuh would be given part of the money that was in budget for the execution of the project. We all left.
“I know from two sources that Mr. Metuh got the money. The first source was the President himself who told me that he had instructed that Chief Metuh be mobilized, and that was during breakfast with Mr. President one morning.
“He told me that he had instructed that Chief Metuh be mobilised with N400m. The following day, very early in the morning, I got a call from Chief Metuh who told me that he had received N400m from the President.”
Saturday, 14 May 2016
Photos-Doyin Okupe Prostrating To Obasanjo
Yesterday , former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe, revealed he prostrated repeatedly before former President Olusegun Obasanjo, begging the former head of state to forgive him over insults he hurled at him while he (Okupe) served as spokesperson for ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.
Mr. Okupe visited Mr. Obasanjo on Sunday at his Hilltop G.R.A. residence in Abeokuta..
Friday, 13 May 2016
I Prostrated, Held His Feet - Doyin Okupe Reveals How He Begged Obasanjo For Forgiveness
Sunday, 8 May 2016
Dasuki Paid Me Monthly, Says Okupe
A former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has revealed that his office was funded monthly by the embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.).
Okupe, who served under Jonathan from 2012 to 2015, said this on his official Twitter handle.
Okupe said, “I was not paid arms deal money. The NSA paid for the running of my office monthly from August 2012. Dasukigate was in 2014. I did not take part in the campaign.”
The former spokesman for Jonathan, however, received bashing from several of his followers online who wondered why his office should get security votes.
A Twitter use, Ojezs, asked, “You’re just implicating yourself. Is it the NSA office that employed you?”
Another user, Ayoola Ayodeji, wrote, “You probably mistake some of us for hungry people. A day will come when you won’t be able to sleep because poor people are outside your gate.”
In his response, Okupe wrote, “You guys are idiotic. You wait and pray for the innocent to be punished. It will not happen. You must think some of us are terrified.”
It had been reported in January that Okupe got at least N1.6bn off Dasuki in three shady cyber security contracts.
One of the contracts had instructions to hunt down unfriendly media websites with Distributed Denial of Service attacks.
It was believed to be a project conceived to shut down online media platforms perceived as friendly towards Muhammadu Buhari, the then presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress ahead of the 2015 election.
The other contract was to intercept all optic fibre cables landing in Nigeria. The third was a passive mass and target GSM interception that had the ability to decrypt ciphers and operate undetected.
The contracts that were allegedly awarded Okupe’s cronies, reinforces claims that the former NSA merely doled out cash and contracts to cronies and political associates and violated procurement regulations in the process.
