The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign a businessman and socialite, Pascal Okechukwu, popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest on April 17, 2024.
EFCC has filed a charge against Cubana before a Federal High Court, Lagos over allegation of abusing the Naira currency.
It was gathered that Cubana Chief Priest will be arraigned before Justice Kehinde Olayiwola Ogundare on a three-count charge
His offences is bordering on allegation of spraying and tampering with the Naira notes at a social event which is contrary to the provisions of the Central Bank Act of 2007.
In the charge filed on April 4, 2024 by the EFFC’s prosecutor, Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN), he was alleged that Okechukwu Pascal on February 13, 2024, at Eko Hotel, within the jurisdiction of the court, while dancing during a social event, tampered with funds in the denomination of N500 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.
Part of the charge reads: “that you, Okechukwu Pasca,l sometime in 2020, in Lagos during a social event, tampered with funds in the denomination of N500 (Five Hundred Naira) 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.”
It would be recalled that the EFCC had on April 5 secured the conviction of popular cross-dresser, Idris Olanrewaju Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky, on similar charges for which he was sentenced to six-month imprisonment.
