The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) Wednesday arrested a woman, Omoseyin Oluwadarasimi Esther, with the Twitter handle Simisola of Lala, offering new naira notes for sale on social media.
The arrest was as a result of intelligence received which led the ICPC operatives to seek out and promptly arrest the suspect.
Omoseyin Oluwadarasimi Esther, a social media “serial entrepreneur” who deals in skincare, sales of fuel, facilitation of foreign travels through visa acquisitions, and other businesses, seized the opportunity of the scarcity of the new naira notes to openly market the new notes. It is believed she is in collusion with key elements in the financial services sector diverting the newly released notes away from banking halls and payment channels into a “ black market”
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Oluwadarasimi is currently in ICPC detention and is helping the Commission with its findings on the criminal trading of the Naira, the attendant scarcity, and the negative economic outcomes of her action.
The action is in furtherance of the collaboration between CBN ICPC and EFCC in implementing the new cashless policy and naira redesign.
It would be recalled that some people were arrested by security agencies last week for selling the new Naira notes at social gatherings including parties.
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