Court Jails Actress For Spraying New Naira Notes
Actress imprisoned for six months by court for stepping on new naira Notes while Spraying
Actress Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin was found guilty and sentenced to six months in prison on Thursday, February 1, 2024, by Justice Chukwujeka Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikayi, Lagus, for stepping on and spraying the new Naira notes during a social event in Lagas.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, or EFCC, charged her on February 13, 2023, under two counts. She entered a plea of “not guilty” to both counts at her initial arraignment
She was subsequently granted bail on February 15, 2023.
The other reads: “That you, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, on the 28th day of January 2023, at Monarch Event Centre, Lekki, Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, whilst dancing during a social occasion tampered with the sum of N100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by spraying same in the said occasion and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 21(1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.”
Omoseyin, however, altered her plea from “not guilty” to “guilty” at the reopened hearing on Thursday due to the overwhelming body of evidence against her.
Z.B. Atiku, the prosecution's attorney, called EFCC agent Abubakar Mohammed Marafa after she entered her “guilty plea” to go over the case's details.
Marafa recalled that, “the defendant was arrested by officers of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, on February 1, 2023, and was handed over to the Commission on February 2, 2023, for further investigation.” According to him, the defendant's statement was taken under. caution, where she stated that she attended a friend's wedding on January 28, 2023, and that she sprayed N200 and N100 Naira notes on the occasion.
“The defendant was processed and the videos of where she sprayed the money was found on her phone. Also, further investigations were carried out and the management of the event centre was invited. They also brought in the video footage of the said event.”
The prosecution's attorney then requested to present in evidence the ICPC letter as well as other supporting materials, such as the defendant's extrajudicial statement, the forensic report of her phone, a CD containing videos of her spraying the naira note, a flash drive from the event center, and the statement of the center's representative.
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