Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal Excessive Courtroom sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, remanded a musician, Terry Alexander Ejeh, in any other case often known as Terry Apala, in a Correctional Centre for alleged mutilation of the Naira notes.
The singer, well-known for his breakthrough single ‘Champagne Showers,’ was arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) on a one-count cost of mutilating the Naira notes.
The cost reads: “That you just, TERRY ALEXANDER EJEH, on the fifth day of January 2025, at La Madison Place, Oniru, inside the jurisdiction of this Honourable Courtroom, while dancing throughout a social occasion, tampered with Naira notes issued by the Central Financial institution of Nigeria by marching on the identical and also you thereby dedicated an offence opposite to and punishable below Part 21(1) of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria Act, 2007.”
He pleaded not responsible to the offence when it was learn to him.
Given his plea, the prosecution counsel, S.I. Suleiman, prayed for a trial date and urged the courtroom to remand him to a Correctional Centre.
Bail software
The defence counsel, Felix Nwabuda, knowledgeable the courtroom of a bail software dated 23 April and prayed the courtroom for a brief date for the appliance listening to.
“ While praying the courtroom for a brief date for the bail software listening to, I shall be craving the courtroom’s indulgence to launch the defendant to the defence.
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“We undertake to supply him in courtroom. He is not going to evade listening to. He got here in from the UK on April 23, 2025, and on the invitation of the EFCC, he got here on his personal.”
The prosecution counsel, nonetheless, opposed the appliance, saying, “The applying is alien and unparalleled.”
“I urge the courtroom to permit us to have a look at the appliance and reply correctly in order that the courtroom could make a well-informed ruling,” he stated.
In a brief ruling, Mr Aluko refused the appliance of the defence.
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Mr Aluko adjourned till 5 Might and ordered the defendant remanded within the Ikoyi Correctional Centre pending the willpower of the bail software
Terry Apala, who has labored with Don Jazzy, Flavour, MI Abaga, Duncan Mighty, and several other others, joins the likes of crossdresser Bobrisky, socialite Cubana Chief Preist and ex-beauty queen Simi Gold, Kano Tiktoker Murja Kunya who’ve been arraigned for Naita mutilation.
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