Actress Sentenced to Six Months Imprisonment...!

On Thursday, February 1, 2024, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, an actress, was found guilty and given a six-month prison sentence by Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court located in Ikoyi, Lagos, for stepping on and spray-painting the new Naira notes during a social gathering in Lagos.

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.

Among the counts, one stated: 

However, in light of the overwhelming evidence against her, Omoseyin altered her plea from "not guilty" to "guilty" at the hearing that was resumed on Thursday, February 1.

After she entered her "guilty plea," Z.B. Atiku, the prosecution's attorney, invited EFCC agent Abubakar Mohammed Marafa to go over the case's details.

According to Marafa, the defendant was taken into custody on February 1, 2023, by officers of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC), and on February 2, 2023, the defendant was turned over to the Commission for additional investigation.

The defendant claimed that she sprayed N200 and N100 Naira notes on January 28, 2023, during a friend's wedding. However, Marafa claimed that the defendant's statement was cautiously collected.

Judge Aneke delivered the verdict, sentencing the defendant to six months in prison, starting on Thursday, with the option to pay a fine of N300,000.00 (three hundred thousand Naira only) into the federation's consolidated revenue account.

Omoseyin received her jail sentence when she was apprehended by ICPC agents on Awolowo Road in Ikoyi, Lagos, following the internet release of a video showing her stepping on and spray-painting the freshly redesigned Naira notes at a party. She was also seen flashing wads of the new Naira notes in the viral video.  She stated in her testimony before the Commission that she did not know the people who gave her the money and that she was given the new Naira notes by her partygoers.

At the time of her arrest, a Range Rover was among the items found on her.