Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has stated that the manner in which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured the conviction of controversial cross-dresser Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky on Friday showed that his main offence was not currency mutilation.
The activist added that EFCC should be more deliberate in fighting economic crimes by charging the immediate president, Muhammadu Buhari and his cabals to court for the atrocities they committed while in power.
Sowore, who was reacting to a Federal High Court judgment, which sentenced Bobrisky to six months in jail without an option for fine for Naira abuse, noting that the same approaches should be used to ensure real saboteurs of Nigerian economy are also successfully charged and convicted.
He argued that EFCC should be more deliberate in fighting economic crimes by charging the immediate president, Muhammadu Buhari and his cabals to court for the atrocities they allegedly committed while in power.
He wrote: “The @officialEFCC is gleefully announcing that Bobrisky has been jailed for six months without an option of a fine for “mutilating” the Nigerian currency, the Naira.
“The real people destroying the economy, like former President @MBuhari, his former Attorney General, Malami, his former personal secretary Tunde Sabiu, and even the former @cenbank governor, @GodwinIEmefiele, are yet to be jailed for the massive economic damage they did to ruin Nigeria.
“The energy put into prosecuting and jailing a cross-dresser, Bobrisky, shows his real offense could not have been spraying of Naira at a party.
“Let’s see how @officialEFCC handles cases involving real financial criminals a long list-some being prosecuted since 2007-who destroyed the Naira in the near future. #RevolutionNow”