Society Gists

Nigerian crossdresser turned transgender, Olanrewaju Idris Okuneye popularly known as Bobrisky has filed a N1.2 billion lawsuit against Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and National Assembly for allegedly violating her fundamental rights.

SocietyGists reports that Bobrisky has been at the centre of controversy since social media activist Martins Vincent Otse popularly known as VeryDarkMan posted a purported audio recording wherein the celebrity said she paid some EFCC officials N15 million to drop money laundering charges against him.

Bobrisky also claimed that his “godfather”, alongside Haliru Nababa, Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, ensured he served the six-month sentence in a private apartment and not in prison.

She, however, denied the recording’s authenticity and threatened to sue VeryDarkMan.

House of Representatives Joint Committee on Financial Crimes and Reformatory Institutions resolved to probe the bribery allegation. It invited VeryDarkMan, Bobrisky, Ola Olukoyode, EFCC chairman, and Nababa to appear before the committee.

Subsequently, Bobrisky took to her official Instagram page on Saturday, to share a court file dated October 10 prohibiting EFCC and National Assembly from harassing, detaining, or declaring her wanted.

She alleged that EFCC invited her for investigation based on a hearsay WhatsApp phone call published by VeryDarkMan adding that EFCC failed to investigate the authenticity of the recording, which led to her ridicule on social media, threats from unknown people, and an invasion of her privacy. Bobrisky sought N200 million from EFCC for psychotic trauma and N1 billion from the National Assembly for violating his right to a fair hearing.

The document reads, “The sum of one billion against the 1st respondent being damages for unlawful attempt to violate the right to fair hearing of the applicant, violate his right from discrimination, violate his right to private and family life, right to privacy of his home and telephone conversations.”

“The sum of two hundred million naira against the 2nd respondent being damages suffered, psychotically trauma, mental torture and criminal stigmatisation caused by the reckless report given by the 2nd respondent to the 1st respondent without any proper investigation and fair hearing stating that the doctored social media published audio by VeryDarkMan was true, having not carried out any formal and proper investigation by contacting WhatsApp and lying before the committee that the hearsay doctored evidence was confirmed to be true and authentic.”

“The violation of the right of freedom of movement, right to privacy of his telecommunication.