Nigerian cross-dresser Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has filed a lawsuit against internet activist and critic, VeryDarkMan (VDM), over an audio clip shared on social media.
The audio allegedly captures Bobrisky discussing how he supposedly bribed officials from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with ₦15 million to dismiss money laundering charges against him earlier this year.
The recording also implicates officials from the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), claiming they allowed Bobrisky to serve a six-month prison sentence outside of the facility.
Bobrisky has, however, disowned the audio, stating that the voice recording purportedly implicating him in any wrongdoing were Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated.
In a letter he shared on his Facebook page on Sunday, Bobrisky’s legal team demanded that VeryDarkMan delete the audio clip immediately, issue a public apology in two national newspapers, and record a video apology to be shared across all social media platforms.
The suit also demands that VeryDarkMan cease publishing defamatory content about Bobrisky and pay N1 billion in damages within 24 hours.
Part of the letter reads, “We demand, on behalf of our client, a written apology published in two national daily newspapers, a video recording of your apology to our client shared on all your social media platforms, a commitment to refrain from reporting or publishing defamatory content against our client, and the payment of N1,000,000,000 in damages within 24 hours of this letter via social media or any other means.”