A Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Kano has sentenced a well-liked TikToker, Murja Kunya, to 6 months imprisonment for Naira abuse.
The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, Kano Directorate, on Wednesday secured the conviction and sentencing of the social media influencer earlier than Justice Simone Amobeda of the Kano Federal Excessive Court docket.
Kunya was arrested for allegedly spraying Naira notes for enjoyable throughout her keep in a resort room at Tahir Visitor Palace in Kano.
She was initially arrested in January 2025 for violating the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN) Act, which prohibits the abuse and mutilation of the Naira.
The TikToker was granted administrative bail by the Fee pending her arraignment earlier than the Federal Excessive Court docket in Kano.
Nonetheless, when it was time for her court docket look, she absconded in her bid to evade the authorized course of.
After weeks of intensive investigation and surveillance, EFCC operatives efficiently re-arrested Kunya on Sunday, March 16, 2025.
She was subsequently arraigned on Could 20, 2025, the place she pleaded responsible to the amended one depend cost.