COURT SENDS KADUNA TIKTOKER TO JAIL FOR NAIRA ABUSE
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By Aishat Momoh. O.
Muhammad Kabir, a TikTok and Instagram content maker, was found guilty and sentenced by the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court in Kaduna for misusing and mutilating Naira.
On Tuesday, April 29th, 2025, Kabir was arrested in Tudun Wada, Kaduna State, for posting a video on his Instagram and TikTok pages, @youngcee0066, in which he sprayed Naira notes on the ground, matched them, and spoke in Hausa, threatening the EFCC to come and arrest him at his known location.
He was later taken into custody for breaking the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act, which forbids misusing or disfiguring the Naira.
His one-count amended charge reads: “That you Muhammad Kabir Sa’ad (a.k.a youngcee0066)(M) sometime in 2025 at Kaduna within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did unlawfully mutilate Naira by stepping on the Naira banknotes while making a social media video and posting same on the internet and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 21(3) of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, 2007 punishable under Section 21(1) of the same Act.”
The defendant pleaded “guilty” to the charge when it was read to him, prompting the prosecution counsel, M.U Gadaka to pray the court to convict and sentence him accordingly.
Justice Aikawa however sentenced Muhammed to six months (6) imprisonment or to pay a fine of the sum of Three Hundred Thousand Naira (₦300,000.00) to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
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