EFCC To Arraign Cubana Chief Priest Over Alleged Abuse Of Naira
Abdulazeez Abdulwahab
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on Wednesday, 17 April 2024, arraign a businessman and socialite, Pascal Okechukwu (popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest) before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos over allegations of abusing Nigeria’s national currency, the Naira.
Cubana Chief Priest will be arraigned before Justice Kehinde Ogundare on a three-count charge of allegedly spraying and tampering with the Naira notes at a social event contrary to the provisions of the Central Bank Act of 2007.
In the charge filed on 4 April by the EFFC’s prosecutor, Senior Advocate of Nigeria Rotimi Oyedepo, and seven other lawyers representing the executive chairman of the anti-graft Commission, it was alleged that Okechukwu Pascal on 13 February 2024, at Eko Hotel, within the jurisdiction of the court, while dancing during a social event, tampered with funds in the denomination of Five Hundred Naira (N500.00) notes issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by spraying same for two hours, and thereby committed an offence, contrary to and punishable under Section 21(1) of the Central Bank Act 2007.
In count 2, it was alleged “that you, Okechukwu Pasca, sometime in 2020, in Lagos during a social event, tampered with funds in the denomination of Five Hundred Naira (N500.00) issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by spraying same for two hours, and you thereby committed an offence, contrary to and punishable under Section 21(1) of the Central Bank Act 2007.”
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