By Abiola Olawale
A prison expert and the Director General of the Prison Rehabilitation Mission, Bishop Kayode Williams, has offered explanations on the reason controversial crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, was allegedly given an apartment to serve his six-month sentence.
Williams, who spoke with the press on Friday, explained that Bobrisky was allegedly offered a special accommodation because he is transgender.
According to him, the controversial crossdresser was protected from inmates who might want to attack him.
In his words: “There are accommodations for condemned prisoners, those sentenced to death, who must not mingle with other inmates. The second accommodation is convicted inmates, who are the owners of the prison.
“The accommodation that is provided for males, are they going to bring Idris with his transgender body /look to go and sleep in the general cell? The first thing they do is decide how to treat someone like that.
“They provided him a special place for protective custody because, with his appearance, he would be in danger.
“He looks like a woman, moves like a woman, and there are homosexual inmates who would be willing to take things to extreme lengths.”
The New Diplomat reports that Bobrisky came under fire after Martins Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan, shared a voice note.
In the voice note, Bobrisky allegedly claimed that following his conviction for abuse of naira notes in April, his godfather, along with the Controller General of the Nigerian Correctional Service, arranged for him to serve his six-month sentence in a private apartment.
Since the allegations emerged, the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board announced on Thursday the suspension of two deputy controllers in charge of the Kirikiri Medium Custodial Centre in Lagos, in connection to Bobrisky’s alleged bribery claims.
