I Don’t Know Bobrisky, Have Never Spoken To Him – Falana
3 min readHuman rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has denied having anything to do with popular crossdresser, Idris Okuneye known as Bobrisky and his alleged bribing of prison officials to serve his prison sentence outside the correctional facility.
VeryDarkMan also alleged that Falana sought a presidential pardon for Bobrisky in exchange for N10 million.
But speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, Falana denied ever meeting Bobrisky or speaking to him.
He further narrated, “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.”
He said he has resisted the temptation to file a criminal complaint because he is leading a team of lawyers in West Africa campaigning for decriminalisation of freedom of expression.
He, however, said that it is not a licence for defaming and blackmailing people, adding that they will embark on civil proceedings with a view to restoring his integrity and that of his son.
“We have asked for a retraction and an apology rendered to us and that is not too much. And if we do not have a retraction and apology acceptable to us, we are certainly going to initiate civil proceedings in the high court,” he said.
On the alleged corruption in the correctional service, Falana said that no one has done more than him in exposing the rot in Nigerian correctional centres.
He expressed surprise that the House of Representatives is setting up a panel to ascertain the condition of the correctional centres in the country.
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