Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, a crossdresser who delights in adorning female outfits, will be kept in the male section of the prison facility throughout his six-month imprisonment, says the officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service.
Bobrisky was sentenced to prison on Friday by Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court’s Lagos Division after he entered a guilty plea to four counts of naira misuse. When Bobrisky was asked to clarify his gender status in court, he told Ms. Awogboro that he was a man.
It was gathered that his response will thereafter notify the jail administration to maintain him in the male-only unit.
“Since he admitted to being a male in court, then we have to abide by what was submitted in court,” the correctional spokesperson told our masthead on Friday.
Prison officials also said Bobrisky will be offered adequate protection from other inmates who might want to sexually violate him.
“He shouldn’t be afraid of sexual assault from other male inmates because our men can give him protection.”
Bobrisky, posting a video of him clutching what appeared to be bosoms and posing half-naked in a bathrobe, has given his five million Instagram followers the impression that he has transitioned to a female.
In one of his photos on Instagram, he wrote, “My journey transitioning into a woman has been going smooth, no health issues, everything is going smooth for me.”
