By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA

Inmates’ rights activist and Director General of the Prison Rehabilitation Mission, Bishop Kayode Williams has advanced the possible reason why convicted crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, aka Bobrisky, might have been kept outside the walls of the designated Custodial Centre where he was to have served out his term.

Williams who spoke on a breakfast show on Arise Television monitored Friday in Abuja, said the fact that Bobrisky is a man but with the appearance of a woman, required a special arrangement for his accommodation.

His position was corroborated by a former National Public Relations Officer of the Service, Controller Francis Enobore (retd).

Addressing the issue, Williams said; “There are accommodations for condemned prisoners, those sentenced to death, who must not mingle with other inmates. The second accommodation is convicted inmates, who are the owners of the prison.

“The accommodation that is provided for males, are they going to bring Idris with his transgender body /looks to go and sleep in the general cell? The first thing they do is decide how to treat someone like that.

“They provided him a special place for protective custody because, with his appearance, he would be in danger.

“He looks like a woman, moves like a woman, and there are homosexual inmates who would be willing to take things to extreme lengths.”

On his part, Enobore said; “Yes, he confessed in court that he is a man but he came in bodily showing that he is a woman.

“Some of the people behind bars are unrepentant homosexuals. There is no doubt that if care was not taken, we will have a very serious security situation on our hands.”