Vietnam Court sentences Nigerian to death for drug trafficking

By Bartholomew Madukwe-- A 45-year-old Nigerian, Ekwegbalu James Nzube, has been sentenced to death by a court in the southern Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam, for trafficking nearly four kilograms of methamphetamine from Cambodia.

Before the sentence was passed on Tuesday, the convict said he got acquainted with another Nigerian, Jone, in China in 2014, and the latter had hired him to transport drugs from Cambodia to Vietnam. According to Nzube, in March he came to Ho Chi Minh City before going to Cambodia to fetch the drugs for which he was paid $2,000. But while illegally crossing the border into Vietnam last July he was caught by border guards in Tay Ninh Province.

It was gathered that in his rucksack they found four plastic bags with nearly four kg of meth. According to the country’s law, those convicted of possessing or smuggling more than 600 g of heroin or 2.5kg methamphetamine face death penalty.