Okupe, who served as Jonathan's representative from 2012 to 2015, included that he got N10m month to month from Dasuki to pay compensations and run a week after week program on NTA.
The previous presidential assistant said this in a Facebook post on Sunday while responding to his capture and cross examination by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The EFCC had asserted that Okupe got N85m from Dasuki at various times.
In his response, Okupe said, "The underlying N50m was affirmed by the President (Goodluck Jonathan) to be paid to me from his security vote. N10m was to outfit my leased living condo and another N10m for my office. The parity N30m was affirmed as take-off award.
"The N10m I got from the ONSA month to month was to run my office, pay rates of individuals from staff, including overheads, pay costs for our various question and answer sessions, pay for distributions in daily papers, magazines, neighborhood and outside, TV projects, releases, and media experts who help and encourage our work. I had around 23 (individuals from ) staff, 11 were graduates out of which five were Master's degree holders.
"The second N50m was endorsed again by Mr. President when I answered to him that the month to month stipend had been sliced from N10m to N5m and that I was no more in a position to continue running a one-hour NTA system program called INSIGHT which was disclosed 9am to 10am each Friday.
"We paid NTA about N1.2m month to month for broadcast appointment. Two moderators were paid N600,000 month to month. The lead moderator on INSIGHT earned N400,000 and the second moderator earned N200,000. Complete N600,000.
"We paid for tapes and altering per program. Moreover, we likewise paid honorarium for visitors either specifically or in type of inn bills for those outside Abuja, or transportation.
"This expense averagely N500,000 week by week or about N2m month to month. With everything taken into account, we spent about N4m month to month on the system. Mr. President guaranteed to help with the costs. Around a couple of months after the fact when we had brought about a few obligations the NSA sent me this N50m which was to take care of the expense of the system for 12 months."
Okupe further illuminated that his month to month remittance was not his pay but rather implied for the running of his office. He said out of the N10m given to him by Dasuki month to month, 40 for every penny went on pay rates.
"Pay sheets with names and workplaces of representatives were submitted to the EFCC. I was paid my pay of N853,000 every month through the workplace of the Secretary of the Government of the Federation," he said.
Okupe, who was additionally tested for supposedly accepting some questionable contracts from a nearby board in Niger State to the tune of N76.5m, said his organization, Romix Soilfix, was one of the more than 20 development organizations who were properly honored contracts for rustic streets somewhere in the range of five years back by the Niger State Government.
He disclosed that because of absence of assets, temporary workers were paid sporadically making the employment to drag.
"The occupation is as yet progressing. The relationship of this to my administration as senior uncommon colleague to President is still not clear," Okupe said.
The previous presidential assistant reprimanded the EFCC for purportedly discharging insights about his wellbeing.
Okupe affirmed that he endured a heart issue and he just disclosed this to examiners to keep him from being kept.
He included, "I was conceived with sinus bradycadia, a non-infection based gradualness of the heart. It blocked me from energetic activity from youth however I have, by God's effortlessness, possessed the capacity to carry on with a typical and dynamic life.
"With age, the gradualness deteriorated and life-debilitating. I looked for medicinal help and experienced a method at the Arrhythmia Cardiac Research Center in Atlanta, where this deformity was adjusted. It was only a year back and I am still under satellite screen from the USA. This is the thing that I uncovered to the EFCC and they made it an open issue."
Okupe kept up that he was not a hoodlum, including that he had just two houses: one in Lagos and one in the place where he grew up.
