Raymond Dokpesi, founder of DAAR
Communications, owners of African Independent Television (AIT), has been
arrested at Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja.
The media mogul was arrested around 4pm when he returned to the country after
seeking medical treatment in Dubai.
AIT confirmed the arrest, saying
no reason was given for it.
Breaking: Chief Raymond Dokpesi has been arrested at Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport on return from medical treatment /operation at the American Hospital Dubai. Reasons have not been given yet for the arrest. pic.twitter.com/I1QS2O06Wd— AIT (@AIT_Online) March 22, 2019
The station later quoted an official of the Nigerian Immigration Service as saying that there was an order from above for Dokpesi to be arrested since he is on the security watch-list of the federal government.
Dokpesi is standing trial for
allegedly receiving N2.1 billion from the office of the national security
adviser (NSA) for the media campaign of the PDP in the buildup to the 2015
elections.
He has dismissed the allegations
of abuse of security funds under the last government, accusing the current
administration of witch-hunting members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“Having said so, I must assure
you that there is nothing like the much flaunted $2.1 billion dollars arms
deal, it does not exist. It’s a figment of the imagination of the current
administration in an attempt to disseminate, misinform, destroy the very root
of the PDP and you must stand, each and every one of you must stand for the
Peoples Democratic Party,” Dokpesi had said at a programme in Abuja.
But his name featured on a list
of alleged looters released by Lai Mohammed, minister of information.
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