Muhammad Bashir Shuaib, Confidence News Ng

CLAIM

Bobrisky grew moustaches after days in EFCC custody

Posts by several online users

VERDICT

False

FULL TEXT

A larger number of online users have shared pictures indicating a lip round red lips indicating moustaches and claimed it is a picture of the popular Nigeria crossdresser Idris Okuneye popularly known as Bobrisky. This viral image has been shared multiple times on Facebook by different users and pages.

On a Facebook page with the profile name “Mercy Aigbe,” the viral image has generated over 140 comments, and over 1000 likes and has been shared more than 40 times.

Other online users have however continued to post the image claiming it to be the recent look of the crossdresser following the recent arrest over Naira Mutilation.

VERIFICATION

The claim became more popular after Bobrisky was sentenced to 6 months in prison without an option of a fine on the 12th of April, 2024.

This Confidence News Ng reporter however conducted a reverse image search on The “Tin Eye,” a reliable image search tool with an interesting quality that gives the user an option of comparing the uploaded picture with the newly searched image. The fact gathered from the search is that the image appeared online on the 18th of July 2021 in “tgcom24 Magazine” and it was an image of Joanna Kenny, an English influencer who shared the images of her face on social media with the hair on her upper lip in plain sight.

Going further in the findings, this fact-finder conducted a Google reverse image search and It was gathered that the image also appeared in a TikTok video posted by “fairview80sbaby” on the 14th of August 2023.

CONCLUSION

The image circulating on social media that Bobrisky has grown moustaches in EFCC custody has been investigated and it is completely False.

Muhammad Bashir Shuaib is a Journalist and  works as a reporter and Fact-Checker with Confidence News Ng