Court Remands Actress for Spraying, Stepping on New Naira Notes

The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, February 13, 2023, arraigned an actress, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, for spraying and stepping on the redesigned new Naira notes.

She was arraigned before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a two-count charge bordering.

One of the counts reads: “That you, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, on the 28n day of January 2023, at Monarch Event Centre Lekki, 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 on the said occasion; and you thereby committed an offense contrary to and punishable under section 21 (1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.

The second count reads: “That you, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, on the 28th day of January 2023, at Monarch Event Centre,  Lekki, 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 dancing on same on the said occasion; and you thereby committed an offense contrary to and punishable under section 21 (1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.”

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