Human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, has refuted any connection to popular crossdresser Idris Okuneye, known as Bobrisky, regarding allegations of bribing prison officials to serve his sentence outside of correctional facilities.
A viral video by blogger Martins Otse, known as VeryDarkMan, claims that unnamed EFCC officers accepted ₦15 million from Bobrisky to drop money laundering charges.
The video also alleges that Falana sought a presidential pardon for Bobrisky in exchange for ₦10 million.
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However, during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, Falana denied ever meeting or communicating with Bobrisky.
“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),” Falana said.
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.”
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