By Efe Onodjae
A security consultant in the Federal Capital Territory who also claims to be the interim national leader of #EndBadGovernanaceInNigeria Movement, Faruq Musa Muhammad has decried the inability of the police in Lagos to try popular influencer, Okuneye Idris popularly known as Bobrisky for violating anti-gay law in the country. He threatened to go to any length in order to ensure that the cross-dresser was committed to jail.
The security consultant said he petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun over the sexual activities of Bobrisky and he directed Lagos State Police command to investigate him but regretted that many months after the directive, the police in Lagos have been unable to cary out IGP’s directives.
In his strongly worded petition, the business man stated that: “Bobrisky’s recent social media posts, which allegedly depict sexual acts between men, violate Nigeria’s Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act.”
He cited two video clips posted by Bobrisky on his verified Face book account, each containing explicit content adding that the videos promote homosexuality and disrespect Nigerian law, which prohibits same-sex relationships and activities.
Stating that his complaint follows a decade of providing insights to Nigerian security forces, receiving commendations from high-ranking officials including the Senate President and the Inspector General of Police, he contended that Bobrisky’s actions not only flout the law but also mock the Nigerian legal system by flaunting his perceived immunity as a public figure.
According to him, I took action against Bobrisky to save Nigeria from God’s calamity but the policemen at the Lagos state Command have been illegally trying o divert the directive of the IGP on the matter as they invited, detained and granted him bail on the 4th of September, 2024 without informing me as the petitioner or the general public. That’s what made me become very skeptical over the matter. I suspect that something suspicious and dubious happened to silence the case. If this happens, it will mean that a historical betrayal has been committed against the Nigerian state.
“As a patriotic Nigerian and an indigene of Kano State, I have featured in many interviews condemning the activities of Bobrisky and calling on the police to check his excesses without commensurate action. Bobrisky has posted himself and other men engaging in gay love and homosexuality activities. The second three minute thirty seven second video clip was also posted by Mr. Idris Bobrisky on the same platform on 1st March, 2024 with a caption: “Special time with my man”, performing a gay sex as the video shows another man erotically touching and groping Bobrisky’s artificial breast before they went to the bed and started having gay sex unlawfully.”
“This video is also attached in the same mentioned DVD disc please. The above mentioned videos of Mr Idris Bobrisky had clearly violated the Nigeria’s Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, 2013 as the section 5 (1). The section 5 (2) of the Act, also makes some further clarification on the person that has directly or indirectly involved himself or herself in “same sex amorous relationship” the same way Mr. Bobrisky was performing with another man in mentioned videos.”
“Mr Idris Bobrisky, has been creating and posting the above mentioned videos on the social media in order to promote homosexuality and LGBT in Nigeria; contrary to the Nigerian law. Mr Bobrisky, is always referring himself as “Mommy of Lagos” in order to brag and mock the Lagos State and Nigeria in particular; and to show the world that he is above the “Nigerian Law” as he is still promoting homosexuality and LGBT activities freely in Nigeria.”
“I am, therefore, calling on the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State to use his good office and invite Mr Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju (Bobrisky) and take the appropriate action against him based on the reasons I stated above.”
