Senior advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana and his son, Folarin have written to crossdresser, Idris Okunneye AKA Bobrisky, demanding a formal retraction and public apology within 12 hours from receipt of the letter, over alleged defamatory statements which were said to have emanated from him against their persons.
In a letter released by two counsel from the Falana and Falana chambers, Olorunfemi Akinyemi and Taiwo Olawanle, they stated that Bobrisky took advantage of his recent imprisonment to extort money from some artists and other members of the public, in a bid to secure a special cell for his confinement following his conviction by a court for abuse of the naira in May this year.
The letter added that “It is undoubtedly clear that you set out to enrich yourself at the expense of our client’s reputation. In fact, you have since published a list of persons who believed your concocted story and donated millions of Naira to pay our client’s father to write a letter of pardon and bribe some unnamed public officers on your behalf.”
They added that Bobrisky’s decision to involve the Falanas in the criminal enterprise was a figment of his fertile imagination, as the senior advocate was never briefed to write a letter of pardon for him or bribe officials for that process.
They stated that a failure to issue a formal retraction and apology as demanded within 12 (twelve) hours of the receipt of the letter, would make the law firm proceed to seek appropriate legal remedies, including monetary damages, against Bobrisky for the alleged incendiary defamatory statements.
