Nigerian gay rights activist and public speaker Bisi Alimi, has put up a post on his official social media platform alongside a photo of crossdresser and social media personality, Idris Olarewaju Okuneye, better known as Bobrisky, with the caption: "Lest we forget"-an injustice to one is an injustice to all". The caption is in reference to Bobrisky's arrest by the EFCC and eventual conviction by a Lagos State High Court on charges of Naira abuse.
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It will be recalled that following a trial where he pled guilty to charges of naira abuse, Bobrisky was on the morning of 12 April 2024, handed a six month prison sentence by a Lagos state judge, without an option of fine. The crossdresser has remained remanded at one of the correctional facilities in Lagos. The sentence which generated controversy led many citizens to claim that Bobrisky was used as a scapegoat by the legal system because of his publicly professed sexual orientation of being a transgender male and crossdresser, which are sexual orientations declared illegal by Nigerian laws.
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