Court Sentences Labour Party Presidential Campaign DG To Prison Over Fraud

The Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted the Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe has been sentenced to two and half years for breaching the Money Laundering Act.

ABN TV reported that Okupe was convicted of the offence on Monday by a Federal High Court in Abuja.

In a judgment on Monday, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu found Okupe guilty of contravening sections 16(1)&(2) of the Money Laundering Act, for accepting cash payments without going through a financial institution, in excess of the threshold allowed under the Act.

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Okupe was said to have received hundreds of millions in cash from the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) while Col. Sambo Dasuki (retired) was in office.

Justice Ojukwu has stood down proceedings till 1:45pm for Okupe to exercise his right under Section 310 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) to call witnesses to testify about his character before the court could proceed to pronounce sentence on the convict.