{"id":46936,"date":"2025-04-09T04:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T04:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=46936"},"modified":"2025-04-09T04:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T04:09:26","slug":"nigerian-make-up-artist-jailed-for-throwing-cash-at-his-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=46936","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian make-up artist jailed for throwing cash at his wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A make-up artist in Nigeria has been sentenced to six months in jail for abusing the currency, the naira, by flinging it while dancing at his wedding celebration last December.<\/p>\n

Abdullahi Musa Huseini, popularly known as \u201cAmuscap\u201d on social media, was sentenced by a high court in the northern city of Kano minutes after pleading guilty to the charge.<\/p>\n

Flinging or \u201cspraying\u201d of banknotes, as it is called in Nigeria, is often done at weddings and other celebrations to show a person\u2019s wealth and as an expression of joy.<\/p>\n

But the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been waging a campaign against it, saying it shows disrespect for the naira \u2013 one of the country\u2019s most important symbols.<\/p>\n

Amuscap is the latest Nigerian to be imprisoned for violating the 2007 Central Bank of Nigeria Act.<\/p>\n

It states that the \u201cspraying of, dancing or [marching] on the naira\u201d is an offence, with the punishment being no less than six months in prison or a 50,000 naira fine ($32; \u00a325), or both.<\/p>\n

The EFCC said that Amuscap, while dancing during the wedding celebration, \u201ctampered\u201d with 100,000 naira by spraying the notes.<\/p>\n

A transgender woman known as Bobrisky and actress Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin spent six months in prison last year after being convicted of the same offence in separate cases.<\/p>\n

Some social media users have reacted with outrage to the make-up artist\u2019s sentencing, saying the punishment is too harsh.<\/p>\n

One pointed out the hypocrisy of allowing those alleged to have siphoned off the nation\u2019s wealth to go unpunished yet jailing a man for \u201cspraying his own money\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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