The Big Brother Naija (BBN) producers have been called to account for the nud!ty that was shown on the show, by the National Council for Art and Culture (NCAA).
The NCAA also called for a legislative amendment that would grant it the authority to deta in and convict crossdressers in the country.
Following the sponsorship of a measure in the House to modify the same-sex (Prohibition) Act to ban cross-dressing in Nigeria, Muda Umar (APC, Bauchi) called for the hearing.
The bill which seeks to amend sections 4 and 5 of the principal act, proposes that “A person engaging in cross-dressing is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment of six months or a fine of five hundred thousand naira.”
During an inquiry by an ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, October 4, NCAA Director-General Segun Runsewe made an appeal for authority to penalize Big Brother Naija and transgender people like Bobrisky.
He said;
“I am the first person who took Big Brother Nigeria to the NBC to report them because they were having…I took it up and Big Brother (organisers) tried to reach me and I told them that if the culture in other parts of the world is to be naked – nudity, etc they should not bring it to Nigeria because our culture is rich and it respects the integrity of our country.
“I will give you an example. When Bobrisky started behaving like a woman, I rose and followed him to Lagos. I ‘scattered’ his (birthday) party and I told him, ‘This is not our culture.’ But at the end of the day, that is just Part 1. This honourable house just needs to empower us with just a legal framework and that nonsense will stop”
Source:Ghgossip.com
