Court takes action against woman for hawking naira notes in popular southwest state

• The Economic and Financial Crimes Crimes Commission (EFCC), has secured the conviction of a girl identified as Adeyinka Bilikis Gbadamosi
• The Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, jailed Gbadamosi for six months for hawking naira notes
• Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke gave the convict an option of a spirited of N50,000.00 (Fifty Thousand Naira Only)

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Lagos issue – A woman identified as Adeyinka Bilikis Gbadamosi has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for currency racketeering.

Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the federal excessive court docket sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, delivered the judgement on Wednesday, Would possibly per chance well well presumably honest 29, 2024.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned Gbadamosi earlier than the court docket on a one-depend price bordering on currency racketeering.

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This turned into as soon as disclosed in a statement issued by the anti-graft company by technique of its X deal with (previously identified as Twitter) @officialEFCC

“That you, Adeyinka Bilikis Gbadamosi, on the twenty seventh of April, 2024 in Lagos, contained in the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court docket, engaged in hawking the total sum of N897,900.00 (Eight Hundred and Ninety-Seven Thousand, Nine Hundred Naira) in N200 Naira convey denomination” the depend reads.

The EFCC stated the offence is opposite and punishable below Fragment 21(4) of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (Institution) Act, 2007.”

Gbadamosi pleaded “guilty” to the price when it turned into as soon as study to her.

An EFCC operative, Olagunju Abdul Malik, prompt the court docket that the defendant turned into as soon as arrested on April 27, 2024, whereas hawking Naira notes at 10 Stage Event Centre, Billings Intention, Ikeja, Lagos, following credible intelligence bought by the Commission.

Gbadamosi’s counsel, A.A. Olawipo, prayed to the court docket for a non-custodial sentence or the possibility of a spirited.

Justice Aneke sentenced the convict to six months imprisonment, with an option of a spirited of N50,000.00 (Fifty Thousand Naira Only).

The Reflect also ordered that the N897,900.00 recovered from her be forfeited to the Federal Authorities of Nigeria.

Video exhibiting lady hawking new naira notes

In the period in-between, Legit.ng reported that a viral video showed the moment a girl hawked new naira notes that many are struggling tired reactions.

In the clip, the hawker stated she would price N10,000 for every and every N50,000 naira convey as she showed off money bundles.

Nigerians who reacted to the video stated that any such practice is the motive the country is fleshy of corruption.

Offer: Legit.ng