Sunday, November 17, 2024-Nigerian crossdresser Idris Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky, has filed a N1.2 billion lawsuit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the National Assembly, accusing them of violating his fundamental rights.
Recall that Bobrisky has been in the eye of the storm since activist
VeryDarkMan shared a purported audio conversation wherein he claimed to have
paid some EFCC officials N15 million to drop money laundering charges against
him.
Bobrisky was released on August 5, after he was sentenced to six months
in prison on April 12 for abusing the naira.
In the purported recording, the crossdresser 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.
The crossdresser, however, denied the recording’s authenticity,
threatening legal action against VeryDarkMan.
The House of Representatives Joint Committee on Financial Crimes and
Reformatory Institutions resolved to probe the bribery allegation.
The House also invited VeryDarkMan, Bobrisky, Ola Olukoyode, EFCC
chairman, and Nababa to appear before the committee.
Bobrisky, on Saturday, took to Instagram to share a court file dated
October 10 prohibiting EFCC and National Assembly from harassing, detaining, or
declaring him wanted.
He claimed, in the lawsuit, that EFCC invited him for investigation
based on a hearsay WhatsApp phone call published by VeryDarkMan.
According to him, EFCC failed to investigate the authenticity of the
recording, which led to his ridicule on social media, threats from unknown
persons, and invasion of his privacy.
The crossdresser, in the document, is seeking N200 million from EFCC for
psychotic trauma and N1 billion from the National Assembly for violating his
right to a fair hearing.
“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
laying 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, ” the document read in part.
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