Buhari behind my ordeal– Dokpesi

Media mogul, Raymond Dokpesi, has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of instigating his ordeal in the hands of the nation’s security agencies.

Dokpesi said this after he submitted himself for questioning by the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS). He was quizzed for about two and a half hours at the Comptroller General’s Investigation Department and was allowed to go home at about 3:10 PM.

According to him, government is bent on stopping him from travelling abroad where he has been seeking medicare in the past few months, claiming that the NIS is intent on impounding his passport, which in his words, is in the custody of the Federal High Court, Abuja.

Dokpesi, who is facing trial over alleged N2.1 billion arms deal scam, said “Definitely if I had brought my passport today, they would have impounded it, that is what it is.”

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Narrating his recent ordeal with the NIS he said, “I just returned from a medical trip overseas last Friday, March 22nd 2019 when I was arrested for between 50 to 55 minutes at the airport. I was told that they had instructions from above to arrest me on my return but after a few phone calls and contacts, the immigration officer at the airport told me that he had instructions from above that I could leave and he gave me back my passport and told me that I should go and that they would reach me subsequently.

“On Monday, I received new information and in line with the normal process, I returned my passport to the Federal High Court since I travelled under a judicial approval or permission. So I returned my passport and gave notice that I might have to go for a medical check-up so that they will ensure that the operation was successful and that all the organs and everything are properly healed.

“So when I got the letter yesterday (Tuesday) 26th, I replied that same yesterday notifying them that I had returned the passport to the Federal High Court and that it has been duly acknowledged and added all the necessary information and so on.

“But the officers who interrogated me said that they had expected me to go back to the Federal High Court and obtain the passport with their letter of invitation and I told them that I totally deferred from that line of thought.

“If you the immigration service with the instruction from above requires my passport, then write directly to the Federal High Court and request for the passport. If you like, you can copy me for me to be able to go there and say, look I am supposed to be a courier, has the Court approved it and I will return it clearly, but that did not happen and that made us have altercations and tempers went very high.

Dokpesi also expressed suspicion that he would be invited again by the NIS.

On whether he suspected any foul play, he said his ordeal “is the handiwork of the Buhari federal government.”

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