A Nigerian has been sentenced to death
for drug trafficking in Vietnam, state media said on Wednesday.
According to AFP, a court
in Vietnam, whose drug laws are among the toughest in the world, on Monday
handed a 31-year-old Nigerian man, Ejiogu Benjamin Ikechukwu, a death sentence
for smuggling 3.4 kilograms of methamphetamines from Qatar to Vietnam.
Vietnam takes a hardline on drugs
and anyone found guilty of attempting to smuggle more than 100 grams of heroin
or cocaine can face the death penalty.
Convictions and sentences are
revealed only by local media which is strictly under state control in the communist
nation.
Ejiogu who was arrested at the
city’s Tan Son Nhat Airport on June 23, 2012, after arriving from Thailand,
with the drugs allegedly found in 19 nylon bags hidden in a battery charger,
claimed during interrogation that he had been asked by another man to
carry some goods including 16 pistons and the battery charger to Viet Nam, and
that he did not know there were drugs inside.
Meanwhile, after a two-year
hiatus in carrying out capital punishment due to problems of procuring
chemicals for lethal injections, Vietnam executed its first prisoner by the
method in August.
The country currently has more
than 586 prisoners on death row, at least 117 of whom meet all the criteria for
immediate execution, media reports have said.
Although the country does not
release statistics on executions, rights group Amnesty International recorded
five executions in 2011 and said 23 new death sentences were handed out that
year, mainly to drug traffickers.
Foreigners frequently fall foul
of the nation’s stiff drug laws.
In June last year, a Thai design
student was handed a death penalty for trafficking three kilos of
methamphetamine, while in October, a 61-year-old Filipina received the death
penalty for smuggling five kilograms of methamphetamines.
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ReplyDeleteThis is pathetic. i pray God forgives u of ur sins and a true repentance from u. Let God judge the case, but those with get rich quick syndrome should learn from this.
ReplyDeleteAnother sad lesson.
ReplyDeleteBroda dere is til hop pls talk 2ur God distroub him wit ur cry I blvGod can save u
ReplyDeleteNigeria. Government will surely pay it, because our youth is strogling to survive and sure there children can not take such risk while because every thing is surficient for them. Ikechukwu, I cover ur case wit blood of Jesus IJN Amen.
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ReplyDeleteEhh nwam woke je re ala bekeee o. U see what money cAn course o God help d'poor so that we may survive
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