Social media personality and cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye Olanrewaju also known as Bobrisky, aka ‘Mummy of Lagos’, has reportedly flown out of Nigeria a few days after he was released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Although he did not reveal his destination, Bobrisky, in a series of videos shared on his Instagram story on Monday morning, announced that he was travelling on a first-class ticket.
“See you soon, Nigeria. This girl bought a first-class ticket three times, that’s over 30 million. Raise the bar for this girl,” he boasted.
Bobrisky remarked on the disfigurement of his passport photo, saying, “That passport disfigured my picture.”
Bobrisky’s departure comes on the heels of a series of events that unfolded last week. Recall that the cross-dresser was stopped and removed from an Amsterdam-bound KLM flight at Murtala Muhammed International Airport while attempting to travel to London on Thursday night.
He alleged that he sustained injuries during the incident and subsequently alerted his followers on social media. "Nigerians, help me, EFCC just arrested me. I’m badly injured," Bobrisky wrote.
He was afterwards, taken to the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja, where he reportedly faced series of questioning regarding claims that he had bribed officials with N15 million to dismiss money laundering charges against him.
He was subsequently released and was granted bail on Saturday after he reportedly denied bribing the EFCC in his confessional statement made at the commission’s headquarters. Emphasizing that he had nothing to do with the said allegation, and further insisted that the fellow who posted the voice note should come over to justify it. He said nobody requested money from him in the EFCC and he didn’t give anyone anything.
However, Bobrisky’s legal troubles has since began in April 2024, when he was sentenced to six months in prison for naira abuse. Although, initially incarcerated at Kirikiri Prison, reports emerged that he spent only three weeks in confinement before being discreetly relocated to an undisclosed private location.
The situation escalated further in September when the social media controversial activist, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, aka VDM, released an audio recording allegedly featuring Bobrisky discussing the bribery of the EFCC officials to drop money laundering charges against him.
