A make-up artist in Nigeria has been sentenced to 6 months in jail for abusing the foreign money, the naira, by flinging it whereas dancing at his wedding ceremony celebration final December.
Abdullahi Musa Huseini, popularly generally known as “Amuscap” on social media, was sentenced by a excessive courtroom within the northern metropolis of Kano minutes after pleading responsible to the cost.
Flinging or “spraying” of banknotes, as it’s referred to as in Nigeria, is usually finished at weddings and different celebrations to point out an individual’s wealth and as an expression of pleasure.
However the Financial and Financial Crimes Fee (EFCC) has been waging a marketing campaign towards it, saying it reveals disrespect for the naira – one of many nation’s most essential symbols.
Amuscap is the newest Nigerian to be imprisoned for violating the 2007 Central Financial institution of Nigeria Act.
It states that the “spraying of, dancing or [marching] on the naira” is an offence, with the punishment being a minimum of six months in jail or a 50,000 naira wonderful ($32; £25), or each.
The EFCC stated that Amuscap, whereas dancing in the course of the wedding ceremony celebration, “tampered” with 100,000 naira by spraying the notes.
A transgender girl generally known as Bobrisky and actress Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin spent six months in jail final yr after being convicted of the identical offence in separate instances.
Some social media customers have reacted with outrage to the make-up artist’s sentencing, saying the punishment is just too harsh.
One identified the hypocrisy of permitting these alleged to have siphoned off the nation’s wealth to go unpunished but jailing a person for “spraying his personal cash”.
—BBC
