The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has described the controversy surrounding a popular cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky as a reflection of institutional issues in the country. Tunji-Ojo stated this on Tuesday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today.
DAILY POST recalls that Bobrisky has been embroiled in a saga over his jail time for naira abuse. In a viral audio, the cross-dresser claimed to have paid some officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, to get special treatment in prison. The Interior minister said the incident which had dominated conversations for months, is a reflection of institutional issues.
'When you have an institutional problem, you don’t just provide a knee-jerk approach to solving it. “We set up that committee to look into all the issues, beyond Bobrisky, beyond people absconding – it is a whole institutional issue,' he said. According to him, reforming Nigeria’s institutions is the way forward in resolving similar issues that may occur in the future. “We cannot transfer today’s problem to the future,” the minister said.
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