Naira Abuse: EFCC Arrests Edo Governor's Close Associate, Kelly Okungbowa After SaharaReporters' Story

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested Kelly Okungbowa, besides known arsenic Ebo Stone, for alleged naira abuse. 

The apprehension was carried retired by operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate connected Monday, 17 March 2025.

SaharaReporters connected Sunday exclusively reported that Okungbowa was caught connected video spraying freshly minted naira notes connected 2 strippers astatine a backstage party.

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Okungbowa, who served arsenic the Chairman of the Edo State Asset Recovery Committee and the State Coordinator of the Public Safety Response Team (PSR), is known to beryllium a adjacent subordinate of Governor Monday Okpebholo.

The video, which surfaced online implicit the weekend, showed Okungbowa throwing bundles of currency into the aerial arsenic 2 scantily dressed women danced astir him, rubbing the notes connected their bodies.

Okungbowa was taken into custody pursuing the video showing him spraying and mutilating the naira astatine a barroom connected 9 March 2025.

“He volition beryllium charged to tribunal arsenic soon arsenic investigations are completed,” the EFCC stated.

His apprehension comes amid heightened enforcement against naira abuse, a usurpation that carries ineligible consequences nether Nigerian law.

The Edo State Government had earlier suspended him from his relation arsenic coordinator of the PSRT.  

Meanwhile successful a akin incident, SaharaReporters reported connected Monday however EFCC arrested Murja Ibrahim Kunya, a well-known TikTok influencer, who has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) successful Kano implicit allegations of naira mutilation.

SaharaReporters gathered that Kunya was taken into custody connected Saturday pursuing accusations of currency misuse.

Murja Ibrahim Kunya, a well-known TikTok influencer, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) successful Kano implicit allegations of naira mutilation.

SaharaReporters gathered that Kunya was taken into custody connected Saturday pursuing accusations of currency misuse.

Reports bespeak that she had antecedently been arrested and was scheduled for arraignment 3 weeks earlier but allegedly escaped from custody earlier she could beryllium charged.