The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the rearrest of crossdresser Bobrisky.
The self-proclaimed transgender was leaving the country on
Thursday night when she was dragged out of an airplane by airport officials.
Bobrisky took to her Instagram page to post a plea for help,
saying she was detained by the EFCC and badly injured. She also shared a video
of her wounded arm.
On Friday, Dele Oyewale, EFCC spokesperson, told TheCable that Bobrisky was taken into custody to assist in investigating bribery allegations against the agency.
“Yes. It is true. He
is in our custody. He made an allegation against our officers. And we have
asked him to come and assist our investigators in the case. And he has refused
to come. The House of Representatives invited him, but he refused to come,”
Oyewale said.
“Are we going to continue to watch him with that kind of
grievous allegations he made against us? It is just for him to come and
establish the basis and write a statement to that effect and he will be
released. He who alleges must prove. He is in our custody. We arrested him last
night.”
The development comes about two weeks after Bobrisky’s
apprehension at the Seme border for allegedly attempting to flee the country.
She was transferred to the Lagos FCID in Alagbon for investigation.
How the crossdresser got out of detention, including any
potential bail, remains unknown.
Bobrisky, the EFCC, and the Nigerian Correctional Service
(NCS) are under investigation by a house of representatives committee over
bribery allegations.
The crossdresser has been in the eye of the storm since
activist VeryDarkMan shared a purported audio conversation wherein she claimed
that she paid some EFCC officials N15 million to drop money laundering charges
against her.
In the recording, she also claimed that she spent her
six-month jail term in an apartment rather than Kirikiri prison due to the
influence of “my godfather”.
The self-proclaimed transgender later described the viral
recording as “fake” and threatened to sue VeryDarkMan for alleged defamation.
An investigative panel recently revealed there was no
evidence that Bobrisky slept outside the prison during her six-month jail term.
The self-proclaimed transgender was first arrested and
charged to court by the EFCC in April for abusing the naira notes. She was
sentenced to six months in prison for the same offence.
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