NIGERIAN crossdresser, Okuneye Idris, also known as Bobrisky, has been transferred to the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) Annex in Alagbon, Lagos State, where he spent Monday night in a cell.
According to Punch, the police are waiting for more instructions on his case.
They said he was brought to the FCID after being apprehended by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) personnel while attempting to flee the country through the Seme border.
“He is in detention at the FCID, Alagbon. He was arrested on Sunday, detained overnight, and taken to the FCID, Alagbon, around 10 pm on Monday. He is still at the FCID,” a source told the newspaper.
The ICIR reported that the NIS confirmed Bobrisky’s arrest on Monday, October 21.
This development followed his increasing public scrutiny over recent controversies surrounding his six-month jail term at the Nigerian Correctional Service.
In a statement released on Monday, the NIS revealed that Bobrisky was arrested while attempting to flee Nigeria and was undergoing interrogation.
The statement emphasised that the social media influencer would be handed over to the appropriate authorities for further investigation.
Allegations by an activist, Martins Otse, known as VeryDarkMan, had surfaced online alleging that while serving his sentence for abusing the naira, Bobrisky had bribed some prison officials and others to enable him to stay outside the prison.
He was said to have bribed senior prison officers to give him undeserved privileges as a convict.
The allegations prompted the minister of interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, to set up an investigative panel chaired by the ministry’s permanent secretary, Magdalena Ajani.
The panel stated that Bobrisky had access to special privileges during his incarceration, including a private cell, frequent visits, and access to electronic devices.
Reading the panel’s phase one report on Monday, the executive director and founder of Prisoners’ Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA), Uju Agomoh, a member of the panel, said the panel found no evidence that Bobrisky slept outside the prison walls.
Agomoh stated that Okuneye enjoyed special privileges such as a single cell, frequent visits, access to a humidifier, fridge, television, a phone and many visits from his family members and friends.
However, she pointed out that moving Bobrisky from a medium facility to a maximum security facility as a first offender violated Section 164A and Section 164B of the Nigerian Correctional Service Act of 2019.
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