Former
Presidential spokesperson to former president Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has denied
media reports that some companies linked to him got contracts from the office
of the former NSA Sambo Dasuki.
In a statement which he released yesterday
January 19th, Okupe said he never got along with Dasuki during their time in
government. His statement reads in part;
"Unknown
to many Nigerians, and quite usual with politics at the top, for reasons not
clearly defined, I never got along well with colonel Dasuki retired. In fact,
he twice told me to my face that he will get Alhaji Gulak and myself out of
former president Jonathan’s administration.
Colonel
Dasuki would never have patronised me or any associate of mine. It was for this
reason I was totally schemed out from the entire presidential campaign in 2015.
Mr Ilan Salman is my friend and we did business together few years ago. But I
have not had any business dealing with him since 2007 when he resigned his
membership of the company we formed together. The name of his offshore company
Romix Technology and the company we ran together Romix Soilfix International
Limited, bear similar first names ‘Romix’. But that is where the similarities
end. “Mr Ilan apparently registered his new company, Romix Technologies after
he resigned from Romix Soilfix International Limited in 2007. He probably used
this name because we both loved the name ‘Romix’. Even when our South African
partners from whom we derived the name Romix Soilfix broke up and told us to
drop the name, we both flatly refused. It is for this reason that after Mr Ilan
left the company, I also went ahead and registered two more companies named
Romix farms limited and Romix homes limited. Romix Technologies is an offshore
company registered in Cyprus. I am not the owner, I have no relationship with
it neither do I have any financial interest. I had no knowledge of their
bidding for contracts from the office of the National Security Adviser, I was
not informed when they were awarded any contract neither was I in the know of
what and when they were paid. I have not benefited financially from the
proceeds of payment for the said contract neither can any money be traced to
me, or any of my family members or associates.” the statement read
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