Popular Nigerian cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, aka Bobrisky, has given the reasons behind her guilty plea during his naira abuse charge earlier this year.
Bobrisky made this disclosure on Saturday in an interview on the ‘Curiosity Made Me Ask’ podcast.
The social media influencer was hit with a six-month prison sentence in April.
The celebrity opined that if she had not been caught in the video spraying Naira, it would have been foolish of her to deny and plead “not guilty” in front of the Judge.
“The mistake people are making; let me correct that part because I can see that you keep saying your home – Kirikiri. In the court, I pleaded guilty. If I had told the judge that I am not guilty, she would grant me bail and I would go to my house. Am I right? But I told her that I am guilty. And why did I tell the judge I’m guilty? I told the judge I am guilty because…” she said
At this point of the interview, she was interrupted by the interviewer before continuing. She corrected the interviewer afterwards for perceiving him as not “intelligent” for pleading guilty.
“……No, I am extremely intelligent, I am smart, and you can’t tell me I’m not intelligent,” she corrected.
Bobrisky noted that, though Nigerians hate the truth, “the truth will set you free.”
“See, what I have noticed about Nigerians is that Nigerians don’t like the truth. But the reason why I pleaded guilty was because I was in the video, I was the one spraying money. In the video is Bob. So I believed that when I tell the judge the truth, in court you go in there and speak the truth.
“Sometimes, the truth sets you free, sometimes it does not set you free. But I don’t care whether mine is going to set me free.
“But I felt like even my lawyer, they told me when I was at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) detention that when you get to the court, tell them (judge) you are not guilty.”
“But I looked at it and I’m like I am the one spraying money and I did not know that spraying money could lead to prison or they will arrest you for spraying money.”
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“But you know what, let me speak the truth to my Lord, whether my Lord is man or a woman, I really don’t care, I will tell the truth.”
“It is now left for my Lord to decide whether I will be given option of fine, community service or anything,” she explained, adding that the judge chose “to sentence Bobrisky to prison and it is okay by me,” Bobrisky stated.
On the tag “ex-convict,” Bobrisky stated that she does not view herself as one, insisting that spraying money and going to jail for it is not sufficient enough reason to be labelled thus.
“I am not an ex-convict because I can’t be convicted for spraying money. So I am not an ex-convict, I won’t accept that one. If you say ex-man, yes, I was once a man way back, I can’t even remember. But now I am a very pretty girl.
“I’m still going to spray money but I am not going to spray naira. I will spray dollars. Yes,” Bobrisky said.
The Influencer, on April 12, 2024, was convicted by Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court in Lagos, for abusing the Naira and spent six months in the Kirikiri Correctional Centre in Lagos.
She regained her freedom on Monday, August 5, to the warm embrace of her fans and friends.
