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Crime & Metro - April 9, 2025

Spraying Naira at wedding ceremony costs makeup artist 6 months in jail

 

 

Stanley Ihedigbo

 

A Kano-based make-up artist, Abdullahi Musa Huseini, also known as Amuscap, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment by the Federal High Court in Kano for spraying Naira notes at his wedding ceremony.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Huseini for wilfully defacing and abusing the Naira notes, an act deemed a disrespect to the national currency.

According to the Head, Media and Publicity, Mr Dele Oyewale, he was jailed after pleading guilty to a one-count charge bordering on abuse and mutilation of the Naira.

The charge reads: “That you, Abdullahi Musa Huseini, on the 6th day of December 2024, at Ali Jita Event Centre, Kano, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court whilst dancing during a social event tampered with the sum N100,000.00 in 1000 notes denomination issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by spraying in the said occasion and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 21(1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007″.

Upon arraignment, Huseini pleaded guilty to the charge, prompting the prosecution counsel, Zarami Mohammed, to present the facts of the case and tender evidence before the court.

Delivering judgment, Justice Shuaibu found him guilty as charged and sentenced him to six months imprisonment without an option of fine.

The convict was arrested following credible intelligence on his involvement in the deliberate mutilation of the Nigerian currency by spraying it at his wedding celebration. Investigations revealed that Huseini willfully defaced and abused the Naira notes in defiance of warnings and campaigns against the practice by the EFCC.

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