The federal government has suspended two officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) over bribery allegations involving Idris Okuneye, a popular crossdresser known as Bobrisky.
The suspension of the officials was disclosed in a statement signed by Ja’afaru Ahmed, the secretary to Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), on Thursday.
On Tuesday, Martins Otse, better known as VeryDarkMan, shared an audio clip of Bobrisky wherein he claimed that he bribed some EFCC officials with N15 million to drop the money laundering charge against him.
In the purported recording, the crossdresser also claimed that his “godfather”, alongside Haliru Nababa, the controller general of the NCoS, ensured he served the six-month sentence in a private apartment and not in the prison.
Bobrisky was released from prison on August 5 after he was sentenced to six months on April 12 for abusing the naira.
Subsequently, the crossdresser denied the bribery claim, while arguing that the viral recording was “fake”.
The viral recording elicited varied reactions as many Nigerians called on the authorities to investigate the allegations involving EFCC and NCoS
