Cross Dressing: Bobrisky, James Brown, Others Risk Jail Sentence

The House of Representatives has introduced a bill to prohibit cross-dressing with an amendment to the Same-Sex (Prohibition) Act.
The amendment, sponsored by Muda Umar (APC, Bauchi), seeks to amend Sections 4 and 5 of the principal act.
This proposed bill, if passed into law, could affect popular crossdressers like Okuneye Olanrewaju, who is popularly known as Bobrisky and James Brown.
The bill was read for the first time on the floor of the House on Tuesday.
The 2013 Same-Sex Prohibition bill was signed into law by former President Goodluck Jonathan despite opposition from the international community, particularly the United States and the United Kingdom.
Jonathan signed the bill into law on January 17, 2014.
The then U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, had said the law “dangerously restricts freedom of assembly, association, and expression for all Nigerians.”
The existing act prescribes 14 years in imprisonment for same-sex marriage and 10 years imprisonment for aiding and abetting the act.