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Federal High Court sitting in Legal States
of Nigeria has sentenced a popular cross dresser,

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Idris k Aka Bomberski to six months
imprisonment for spraying nyro loades. Economic

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and Financial Crimes Commision EFCC, throughout
its statement during the court procedures, only

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stated that Barberiski spread nyron loades printed
by Central Bank of Nigeria c BM,

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hence he has committed offense of neron
mutilation. Bomberski went arrived before the court

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pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against
him and also pleaded with the court not

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to give him custodian sentences because he’s
an employer of label and people under his

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employment will suffer if he’s in jail. The court convicted him same day after

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listening to the EFCC investigative officer who
only said Barberski committed the crime of neron

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mutilation, following videos posted on social
media where he was since spraying nyron loads

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at different ceremonies in Legos State.
E FCC used release about the court judgment

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against Boberski reads in court below.
Justine Abimbala hour Borough of the Federal High

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Court, Centaina Equali, Legos on
Friday April twelfth, twenty twenty four,

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sentenced ibress Okuinnea aka Barberiski to six
months imprisonment over mutilation of the nyra notes.

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He was arranged on Friday April fifth, twenty twenty four on a four

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count change bordering on mutilation of the
nyron notes to the tune of four hundred

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and ninety thousand miras zero zero four
hundred and ninety thousand nira. Count one

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reads that ye Okuinea ibrans O abology
on the twenty fourth day of March twenty

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twenty four at amad Cycle Mount Jacoon
day Leaky within the jurisdiction of those honorable

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courts, whilst dancing during a social
event, tampered with the total sum of

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four hundred thousand miras four hundred thousand
naira notes issued by the Central Bank of

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Nigeria by spraying sem and you thereby
committed an offense contrary to and punishable under

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Section twenty one of the Central Bank
Acts two thousand and seven. Another count

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reads that you Okuneya ivres or la
relogy between July and August twenty twenty three

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at Aja Junction Equaludu within the jurisdiction
of this honorable Courts, whilst dancing during

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a social event, tumbled with the
song fifty thousand liras fifty thousand naira issued

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by the Central Bank of Nigeria by
spraying sem and you thereby committed an offense

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contrary to and punishable under Section twenty
one one of the Central Bank Acts two

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thousand and seven. He pleaded guilty
to the charges when they were read to

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him at the last city the Prosecution
council s I Suleman pushed the court to

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allow the investigating officer a seibology teletopy
A Jay, to give a brief review

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of the facts against him. I
generated to the court that the EFCC received

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intelligence on some individuals who are in
the habits of mutilating and spraying the neron

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loads at social parties and event centers
in Legos. According to him, based

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on intelligence, the EFCC sets of
the Special Operations Team to observe and monitor

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activities of individuals who are involved in
the habits of mutilating the Nira. The

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TIM visited many event centers and monitored
social media pages when the Neira was being

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abused. During the course of the
monitoring, the tim came across videos on

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social media when the defendant was seen
abusing the nirah. The til then proceeded

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to download these videos via our office
laptop computers and also went further to copy

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these videos on compact these. In
the light of the foregoing, a letter

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of invitation was written and forwarded to
the defendants. The defendants under the invitation,

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when he got to our office,
he was voluntarily castured. Thereafter,

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he volunteered to write his statement.
The defendant was shown a video where he

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was spraying money on an artist called
Shewun Johnson. The defendant confessed that he

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was the one in the video.
He was also shown a video at Imax

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Cycle Made where he spread a total
some of four hundred thousand miras at a

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movie premiere. The defendant also admitted
that he was the one in the video

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and that he carried out the abuse. The defendant was also shown two other

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videos of him spraying the nera at
Aja Junction, Equal Door and White Stone

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Evrand Center a Keja Legos. The
defendants admitted to spraying money in these videos.

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He was therefore served with a blow
condition. Consequently, Sulemandon prayed the

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court to convict and sentence the defendants
accordingly, just as our borrow had thereafter

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rules that upon the admission of guilt
by the defendants, testimony of PW one

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and following the evidence standard, the
defendant is declared guilty as charged. In

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his Freeformancy Bomberski said, I am
a social media influenza with five million followers,

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and in all honesty, I was
not aware of the law. I

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wish I can be given a sircum
chance to use my platform to educate my

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followers against the abuse of the Mirah. Also, his lawyer has said he

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will leave the crusaid against the abuse
of Myra. He is also an employer

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of people and if he goes to
jail, the people he employs will suffer.

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He has coperated with the EFC and
has not wasted the time of the

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courts. We ought the courts to
caution the defendant and allow him to go.

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He has given evidence that he will
be useful to the country. We

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ought you to grant a non custodial
sentencing option of fine. After listening to

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both parties, the judge has defold
judgment in the matter to Tuesday, Epriy

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ninth, twenty twenty four and also
ordered that he be remanded in the EFCC

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custody, delivering judgment on Friday.
Just as our modal held that the art

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of mutilating the nyal notes has become
a menace which has continued to damage the

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image of the country. Enough of
people mutilating and tampering with our currencies it

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has to stop, his will serve
as a deterrent to others. The judge

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therefore sentenced him to six months imprisonment
without an option of fine from the death

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of his remand when you’ve been means
in a mortgage away