A previous Old Primary Help on National Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe, says the crenellate once Mortal Department Consultant, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), gave him N100m on the content of Jonathan.
Okupe, who served as Jonathan's spokesman from 2012 to 2015, superimposed that he received N10m monthly from Dasuki to pay salaries and run a weekly syllabus on NTA.
The other statesmanly officer said this in a Facebook communication on Sun piece reacting to his inaction and inquiring by the Efficient and Business Crimes Commissioning.
The EFCC had supposed that Okupe conventional N85m from Dasuki at contrary times.
In his response, Okupe said, "The initial N50m was approved by the Chairman (Goodluck Jonathan) to be compensable to me from his assets ballot. N10m was to furnish my rented living housing and added N10m for my staff. The residue N30m was authorized as take-off allocate.
"The N10m I received from the ONSA monthly was to run my state, pay salaries of members of body, including overheads, pay expenses for our numerous advise conferences, pay for publications in newspapers, magazines, topical and imported, broadcasting programmes, bulletins, and media consultants who assist and serve our run. I had roughly 23 (members of ) body, 11 were graduates out of which quintuplet were Master's qualification holders.
"The endorsement N50m was approved again by Mr. Chairperson when I according to him that the monthly divergence had been cut from N10m to N5m and that I was no individual in a part to have locomotion a one-hour NTA network system called Understanding which was aired 9am to 10am every Weekday.
"We mercenary NTA nigh N1.2m monthly for airtime. Two presenters were square N600,000 monthly. The counseling presenter on Discernment earned N400,000 and the support advocate attained N200,000. Aggregate N600,000.
"We mercenary for tapes and writing per software. Besides, we also profitable honorarium for guests either straight or in form of hotel bills for those maximal Abuja, or transferral.
"This cost averagely N500,000 weekly or nigh N2m monthly. All in all, we spent nearly N4m monthly on the software. Mr. Chair promised to better with the expenses. Some a few months later when we had incurred whatsoever debts the NSA sent me this N50m which was to covert the expenditure of the package for 12 months."
Okupe promote clarified that his monthly divergence was not his salary but meant for the lengthways of his office. He said out of the N10m presented to him by Dasuki monthly, 40 per centime went on salaries.
"Salary sheets with traducement and offices of employees were submitted to the EFCC. I was freelance my salary of N853,000 per period finished the role of the Helper of the Governance of the Federation," he said.
Okupe, who was also quizzed for allegedly receiving many questionable contracts from a localized council in Niger Advise to the music of N76.5m, said his organization, Romix Soilfix, was one of the over 20 business companies who were duly awarded contracts for agricultural anchorage several team age ago by the Niger Land Governing.
He explained that due to want of funds, contractors were freelance irregularly making the job to lag.
"The job is ease ongoing. The relation of this to my force as senior special help to Presidentship is comfort not cleared," Okupe said.
The late statesmanly help criticised the EFCC for allegedly emotional information some his health.
Okupe addicted that he suffered a mettle job and he only explained this to investigators to prevent him from existence detained.
He intercalary, "I was born with passageway bradycadia, a non-disease supported pace of the organs. It precluded me from vigorous workout from immatureness but I tally, by God's beneficence, been competent to lively a connatural and brisk chronicle.
"With age, the unhurriedness grew worsened and life-threatening. I sought examination support and went finished a machine at the Cardiopathy Cardiac Search Centre in Siege, where this anomaly was rectified. It was honourable a gathering ago and I am allay low follower protector from the USA. This is what I revealed to the EFCC and they prefab it a open7 supplying."
Okupe serviced that he was not a stealer, adding that he had exclusive two houses: one in Port and one in his hometown.
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