{"id":18239,"date":"2024-04-04T08:16:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=18239"},"modified":"2024-04-04T08:18:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:18:50","slug":"bobrisky-arrested-by-efcc-over-naira-abuse-currency-mutilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=18239","title":{"rendered":"Bobrisky Arrested By EFCC Over Naira Abuse, Currency Mutilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.efcc.gov.ng\/efcc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economic and Financial Crimes Commission<\/a> has arrested and detained controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky, over abuse of naira, spraying of naira notes and currency mutilation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bobrisky, who has been embroiled in several controversies over the past weeks, was arrested in Lagos on Wednesday night, and has since been detained at the Lagos Command of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.efcc.gov.ng\/efcc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EFCC<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Confirming the development to our correspondent in a telephone interview on Thursday, the spokesperson for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.efcc.gov.ng\/efcc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EFCC<\/a>, Dele Oyewale, noted that Bobrisky would be charged to court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Oyewale said, \u201cBobrisky is with us. He was arrested last night in Lagos, and he is at our Lagos command. We arrested him for alleged abuse of naira notes, spraying of nara notes, and currency mutilation, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe are very serious about restoring the dignity of the naira. Though our investigation is still ongoing, but he will definitely be charged to court soon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested and detained controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky, over abuse of naira, spraying of naira notes and currency mutilation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,8686,8688,75,8687],"class_list":["post-18239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-arrested","tag-bobrisky","tag-currency-mutilation","tag-efcc","tag-naira-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18243,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18239\/revisions\/18243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}