Judging from happenings in the last three weeks, activities of controversial cross-dresser, Bobrisky, have reached the point where government can no longer ignore or dismiss him as unserious. The D...
Judging from happenings in the last three weeks, activities of controversial cross-dresser, Bobrisky, have reached the point where government can no longer ignore or dismiss him as unserious. The Director-General of the National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, thinks Bobrisky is a threat to Nigeria’s moral fabric and has threatened to arrest him.
If Bobrisky was seen all along as a comic relief in a country contending with so many matters of life and death, now the Director-General of the National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, thinks he is a threat to the Nigerian moral fabric. But as offended as Runsewe is, lawyers doubts if he has the legal leeway to proceed against Bobrisky.
“However, the power to arrest and prosecute Bobrisky as a gay or an alleged gay does not lie with Otunba Runsewe; that power is vested in the Nigeria Police Force, who can conduct an investigation into his activities and if he is culpable, can initiate an action against him in the court of law.
He says, “It does not seem that the Criminal Code has exhaustively delineated acts to be classified as indecent acts. Accordingly, whether cross-dressing is an indecent act for which a person may be arrested and prosecuted is for the courts to determine. “Morality and law have a dividing line and legal scholars through the ages have debated it. Prof. HLA Hart and Lord Devin were great examples of the proponents of the legal intervention in moral issues.”
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