The former LP DG, Doyin Okupe has been released by the SSS hours after his arrest on Thursday.
He was earlier arrested on his way out of the country at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos by the men of the state security service.
But in a statement on Thursday afternoon, the EFCC said the arrest of the Labour Party chieftain was a mistake as it was based on a Watch-list request issued on July 18, 2016, when Okupe was first docked for money laundering charges.
EFCC said with the recent conviction of Okupe on money laundering charges by the Federal High Court, Abuja, it has initiated a process of formally lifting the watch-list.
It added that it will expedite action on the process of formally lifting the watch list with the Thursday’s arrest of Okupe.
Doyin Okupe took to his Twitter account to say “I was arrested & detained @ the MM int airport, Lagos this morning 12th Jan on my way to UK for medicals, yrs after my passport was withheld by the FHC Abuja”
“I just left the EFCC were some snr officers in Lagos and Abuja apologized to me for the error”
