Simi Gold bags six months imprisonment for spraying and stepping on new Naira notes

Nigerian actress Simi Gold has been convicted by a court as she bags 6 months imprisonment for spraying and stepping on new naira.

On Thursday, February 1, 2024, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, convicted and sentenced actress Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin to six months in prison for spraying and walking on fresh Naira notes during a social event in Lagos.

On February 13, 2023, she was first charged by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, with two counts, to which she pleaded “not guilty”.

She was eventually granted bail on February 15, 2023.

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.”