Court sends popular actress to prison for abusing new naira notes
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday, remanded Nolllywood actress, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, in Kirikiri penitentiary pending the determination of her bail application, for abusing the Nigerian currency.
Recall that Omoseyin was arrested by operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Fraud Related Offences Commission, ICPC, on Wednesday, after a video of her spraying and stepping on newly ‘redesigned’ naira notes at a party surfaced online.
She was handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for additional inquiries the following day.
The thespian was arraigned before the court on Monday, by the EFCC, on on two count charges.
One of the count reads, “That you Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin on the 28n day of January, 2023 at Monarch event center, 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 in the said occasion and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 21 (1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.
The second read, “That you Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin on the 28th day of January, 2023 at Monarch event center, 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 in the said occasion and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 21 (1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.”
She however pleaded not guilty to the offence.
In view of her plea, the prosecution counsel, S.I Sulaiman asked the court for a trial date and prayed that the defendant be remanded in the appropriate correctional facility.
The presiding judge, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke deferred ruling on the bail application to Wednesday, February 15, 2023 and remanded the defendant in Kirikiri correctional facility.
