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<\/p>\nOkupe, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is facing a 59-count charge bordering on money laundering, criminal breach of trust to the tune of N702million.<\/p>\n
The EFCC through its counsel, Ibrahim Audu, closed its case against him on June 26, 2019 after calling its sixth witness, Shuaibu Salisu, a former Director, Administration and Finance in the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA.<\/p>\n
Salisu, while being led in evidence by Audu, narrated how sometime in 2012 the then NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), directed that money totalling about N50million be paid to Okupe.<\/p>\n
\u201cOkupe provided his account details where I paid the amount into the bank account of Value Trust Investment,\u201d he said, adding that several payments were made at different times to him.<\/p>\n
Justice Ojukwu had afterwards adjourned to June 28, 2019 for the defence to open its case.<\/p>\n
At the resumed hearing, however, defence counsel, J.K. Gadzama, SAN, instead, moved an application for the leave of the court, to allow Okupe travel for medicals.<\/p>\n
The prosecution left the decision to the discretion of the court.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, the trial judge granted the application permitting him to travel to the United States for medicals, and ordered that the international passport of the defendant should be released to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cUpon return, he shall return the international passport to the court,\u201d the trial judge added.<\/p>\n
The case has been adjourned to October 3, 2019 for adoption of written address on the no-case submission, which the defence intends to file.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday adjourned the trial of Doyin Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant on Media to a former president, Goodluck Jonathan, to October 3, 2019. Okupe, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is facing a 59-count charge bordering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[5870],"class_list":["post-131204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-doyin-okupe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}