Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, has convicted and sentenced an actress, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, to six months imprisonment for spraying and stepping on the new Naira notes at a social event in Lagos.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) reported her conviction and sentencing in a statement on Thursday.
One of the court 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”.
At the resumed hearing on Thursday, Omoseyin, changed her “not guilty” plea to “guilty”, because of the overwhelming evidence against her.
Delivering judgment, Justice Aneke sentenced the defendant to six months imprisonment, effective from Thursday, with an option of a N300,000 fine to be paid into the consolidated revenue account of the federation.
Omoseyin was initially arrested by operatives of the ICPC along Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos after the video of her spraying and stepping on the newly redesigned Naira notes at a party surfaced online. In the viral video, she was also seen flaunting wads of the new Naira notes.
However, in her statement, she claimed that she received the new Naira notes from her fans at the party and did not know the people who gave her the money.
