Nollywood Actress, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, has bagged six months jail term for spraying and stepping on the new naira notes at a social event in Lagos State.
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, February 1, 2024, convicted and sentenced the drama queen.
On February 13, 2023, she was first charged with two counts by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). She entered a plea of “not guilty” to both counts.
On February 15, 2023, she was subsequently given bail.
One of the charges 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 (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.
After she entered her “guilty plea,” Z.B. Atiku, the prosecution’s attorney, called EFCC agent Abubakar Mohammed Marafa to go over the case’s details.
