The ingenuity of Nigerians has never been in doubt.
So, with the biting scarcity of cash and the reiteration by the Central Bank of Nigeria to prosecute those who abuse the Naira, event planners in Lagos have devised a new way of living above the broken norms.
One of those is 247SL Events, a Lagos-based event management outfit championing an innovative method of obeying the law while maintaining the Nigerian age-long culture of spraying naira notes at a typical Owambe.
Owambe is a Yoruba word that means “food is there or party is there”.
But in Nigerian parlance, owambe has come to mean a lavish party replete with outlandish outfits, an unending supply of food and drinks and of course, a display of wealth in the form of spraying wads of Naira.
On the 3rd of February, 31-year-old actress Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, popularly known as Simisola Gold, was arrested by the ICPC and EFCC for allegedly spraying and stepping on the new Naira notes.
She was arrested after the video of her spraying and stepping on the newly redesigned Naira notes at a party surfaced online.
She was later granted bail to the tune of N5m.
With its new money vouchers, guests at weddings, burial ceremonies or any such socio-cultural events can buy the amount they intend to ‘spray’ the celebrants and transfer the cash equivalent to the agent’s account.
The agent, in this case, is the event planner, and the common denomination is N1000 and N500 notes. The images of the celebrant or event host are printed on the notes.
A post on 247SL Event’s Instagram page describes the idea as the new way to spray at parties.
“We had this at the burial reception for Kabiesi Alara’s father’s burial. It’s an excellent lent way to stop the abuse of throwing naira at parties
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