There are indications that police in Lagos have had to think fast over accommodating controversial crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, aka Bobrisky, who is currently with them.
He is in detention at the Force Criminal Investigation Department Annex, Alagbon, Lagos State, after he was arrested at the Seme border.
Bobrisky’s gender/sexiality status is no more very clear as he too has made different claims over such.
While serving a jail term for naira notes abuse, the challenge of managing that allegedly led to treating him in a way that turned controversial.
At present, police authorities may have decided to put him in a female cell where he is, however, alone.
‘The Punch’ quotes a source as noting that he is being detained in the female cell because of his controversial lifestyle, adding that there were no female detainees as of the time he was detained at the facility.
The source said, “Bobrisky was brought to the FCID, Alagbon, around 10 p.m. on Monday. Immigration arrested him at the Seme Border and brought him for safekeeping. He is in detention at the FCID, Alagbon. He was arrested on Sunday, detained overnight, and taken to the FCID, Alagbon.
“We have a lot of cells in Alagbon; and when you are having a case like that, you have to look for the right place to guarantee the safety and security of the person being detained.
“Everybody is conscious of the fact that Bobrisky could be gay and nobody wants to be part of a scandal. If you put him among males, anything can happen and you cannot put him among females. So, they gave him a cell alone and the cell is around the female section and they didn’t have any female inmate around that cell.”
Confirming Okuneye’s detention, the spokesperson for the FCID, Lagos, Mayegun Aminat, during a conversation with our correspondent, on Tuesday, said, “He is detained at the FCID, Alagbon. He is with us and we are to get a remand to keep him in custody today.”
However, efforts to get an updated reaction confirming that Bobrisky was detained in a female cell proved abortive as he did not take his calls and had yet to respond to a text message sent to his mobile number as of the time this report was filed.
