Boborisky To Spend 6 Months In Jail
Bobrisky has been sentenced to six months imprisonment without a fine option for Naira abuse
Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court, Lagos, in her sentence, said the judgment will serve as a deterrent to others who are fond of abusing and mutilating the naira.
The controversial cross-dresser Idris Olanrewaju Okuneye who is popularly known as Bobrisky landed a six months imprisonment sentenced without the option of fine for abusing the naira, Nigerian currency
He was sentenced to serve the jail term at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre.
According to the judge in her ruling, the jail term would commence on March 24, 2024, the day he was arrested.
However, before the sentence, the judge asked Bobrisky about his sex, and he quickly replied that he is a man.
The court convicted him on April 5, after he pleaded guilty to a 4 counts charge of abuse of the naira notes, made against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Charges against him read:
“that you, Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, on the 24th day of March 2024, at Imax Circle Mall, Jakande, Lekki, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court whilst dancing during a social event tampered with the total sum of N400,000.00 (four hundred thousand naira) notes issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by spraying same and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 21(1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.
“That you, Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, between July and August 2023 at Aja Junction, lkorodu, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court whilst dancing during a social event tampered with the sum N50, 000.00 (Fifty Thousand Naira) issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by spraying same and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 21(1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.
“That you, Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, sometimes in December 2023 at White Steve Event Hall, Ikeja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court whilst dancing during a social event tampered with the sum N20,000.00 (twenty thousand naira) issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by spraying same and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 21(1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.
“That you, Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, sometimes in 2022 at Event Hall, Oniru, Victory Island, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court whilst dancing during a social event tampered with the sum N20,000.00 (twenty thousand naira) issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by spraying same and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 21(1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.”
