The spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has given an insight into why the force can’t arrest crossdressers.
Nigeria has a couple of popular crossdressers including Idris Okuneye popular as Bobrisky and James Chukwueze Obialor also known as WF James Brown.
In recent times, there have been speculations that crossdressers are befriended by highly placed politicians, hence they seem untouchable to the law.
A few days ago, Solomon Buchi, a self acclaimed life coach to to his X handle to tweet, “Bobrisky must have friends in high places in Nigeria. Probably in the police, judiciary and random politicians, because his confidence to say and do certain things publicly shows that he’s got political assurance.
“Who is Bobrisky’s political godfather in Nigeria?
“Why is the Nigerian government a puppet to Bobrisky?
“If Bobrisky were a poor man, shim would have been prosecuted a long time ago. Who’s covering Bobrisky?”
Speaking on Channels Television on Tuesday, April 2, Adejobi was asked why the police is yet to go after crossdressers in the country.
Responding to the question, he said;
‘’There are some cases that are always very difficult. I am not running away from the fact that we have many of them but for instance if you want to prove a case of rape, rape has points to prove. If any one of those points is missing, you may lose your case in court. Let us be reasonable. You can’t arrest somebody because you want to prosecute without having any credible evidence against such a possible”
Responding to a question on whether crossdressing is a crime in Nigeria, Adejobi said
‘’I don’t think so because I have not read anywhere it is stated it is an offence per se but although some of them that are into crossdressing, the allegation is that they are into unnatural offences, that is where the problem lies. You need to have enough prove, credible evidence to prove that they are actually into that.”
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