On Thursday, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana denied having anything to do with controversial crossdresser, Idris Okuneye popularly known as Bobrisky.
News About Nigeria reports that Falana’s clarification follows alleged claims that the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) had helped Bobrisky in bribing prison officials for him to serve his prison sentence outside the correctional facility.
In a viral video shared by social media activist, Martins Otse also known as VeryDarkMan, some unnamed EFCC officers were said to have collected the sum of ₦15 million from Bobrisky to drop money laundering charges against him.
Also, VeryDarkMan alleged in the video that Falana sought a presidential pardon for Bobrisky in exchange for N10 million.
However, reacting to this during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, Falana denied ever meeting or speaking to Bobrisky.
He further explained that though his son, Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz, has spoken to Bobrisky, Falz had warned Bobrisky not to call him again without the permission of the prison officials.
He said, “Bobrisky never spoke to me, I have never met him, I do not know him from Adam. He was alleged to have spoken to my son Folarin (Falz). Yes, my son said this guy was appealing to people for assistance and called my son I think on May 4 this year – please can you give me N3 million to be placed in a special part of the prison, we call it the VIP section. My son asked him, are you calling me under the authorization of the superintendent of prisons?
“He said no – please don’t call me again, I am unable to assist you to bribe the prison authorities and be very careful since you are already in prison for an offence. Please if you are you are going to call me next time, you either do through the superintendent or you write a letter endorsed by the prison authorities and that was the last. Somebody now start releasing tapes somewhere and went out to lampoon and rather defame me by saying the guy has spoken to me.”
