Court remands Terry Apala for alleged Naira mutilation in Lagos
Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, April 25, remanded singer Terry Alexander Ejeh, in any other case referred to as Terry Apala, in a Correctional Centre for alleged mutilation of the Naira notes.
He become arraigned through the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, April 25, 2025, on a one- matter fee of mutilating the Naira notes.
The fee reads: “That you, TERRY ALEXANDER EJEH, at the fifth day of January, 2025, at La Madison Place, Oniru, inside the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, even as dancing in the course of a social event, tampered with Naira notes issued through the Central Bank of Nigeria through marching at the identical and also you thereby devoted an offence opposite to and punishable below Section 21(1) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, 2007.”
He pleaded now no longer responsible to the offence while it become study to him.
In view of his plea, the prosecution counsel, S.I. Suleiman, prayed for an ordeal date and additionally entreated the courtroom docket to remand him in a Correctional Centre.
The defence counsel, Felix Nwabuda, knowledgeable the courtroom docket of a bail software dated April 23, 2025 and prayed the courtroom docket for a quick date for the listening to of the software .
“ Whilst praying the courtroom docket for a quick date for the listening to of the bail software , I may be yearning the indulgence of the courtroom docket to launch the defendant to the defence.
“We adopt to provide him in courtroom docket . He will now no longer steer clear of listening to . He got here in from the UK on April 23, 2025; and at the invitation of the EFCC, he got here on his own.”
The prosecution counsel, however, antagonistic the software , saying, “ the software is alien and unheard of.”
“I urge the courtroom docket to manage to pay for us the possibility to examine the software and reply nicely in order that the courtroom docket could make a well – knowledgeable ruling,” he said.
In a quick ruling, Justice Aluko refused the software of the defence.
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