The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has come under fire on social media after a mugshot of Adeyinka Bilikis Gbadamosi, a Lagos woman sentenced to six months imprisonment for currency racketeering, featured a misspelling.
The word “racketeering” was spelled as “recketeering,” sparking widespread criticism online.
Adeyinka Bilikis Gbadamosi was arrested on April 27, 2024, while hawking Naira notes at 10 Degree Event Centre, Billings Way, Ikeja, Lagos.
She was arraigned before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, on May 29, 2024.
She pleaded guilty to the charge of engaging in hawking the sum of N897,900, with N200 and N500 Naira note denominations.
Justice Aneke sentenced Gbadamosi to six months imprisonment, with an option of a N50,000 fine. The judge also ordered that the N897,900 recovered from her be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
However, the focus quickly shifted online to the EFCC’s blunder on the convict’s mugshot. Nigerians took to social media to express their outrage and disappointment.
@emzyhush01 commented, “You won’t blame them after all they buy space for position.”
@iam_bmodel said, “This is what happens when you give competent job to incompetent people. I’m not surprised because the way some of their officials are behaving. You will know that some of them didn’t even pass through secondary school.”
@johnomofoma9 tweeted, “A disgraceful criminal organization, the whole world is laughing at the corrupt EFCC. You’re a stain to our country.”
@kunzle77, “Nigeria is just a joke, where’s the mugshot of our politicians & public office holders past & present? Onye Ká Chi m???”
@kaxxmani remarked, “Meanwhile somebody used bullion van to do his racketeering, he is somewhere in…”
@JacobsShed9018 posted, “Yahaya Bello is roaming freely, while you here getting 2 mins erection for oppressing a hustling helpless old lady.”
