Two Nigerian nationals sentenced to death for drug trafficking

A court in the central province of Quang Tri sentenced two Nigerian nationals to death on June 29 for trafficking approximately 14 kilograms of drugs.
Two Nigerian nationals are sentenced to death for drug trafficking (Photo: Tien Phong)

Two Nigerian nationals are sentenced to death for drug trafficking (Photo: Tien Phong)

According to the indictment, border guards operating in the central province of Quang Tri examined a passenger car on September 20 and detected a suitcase containing four packages of a substance similar to crystal meth. The packaged weighed 3.2 kilograms, but no one in the vehicle admitted to being the owner of the suitcase.

Later that day, border guards working in collaboration with customs and polices forces, caught Ekene Etemba, a Nigerian man born in 1990, red-handed as he was in the process of carrying four kilograms of a crystal meth-like substance in Tan Long commune of Huong Hoa district.

Upon expanding the investigation into the case, local authorities also found 11 packages weighing a total of 7.5 kilograms of the same substance, all of which were left at Duc Nhan restaurant in Lao Bao town of Huong Hoa district.

Elsewhere, the afternoon of September 20 saw the Border Station of the Lao Bao Border Gate arrest Omeje Jonson Chibu, a 20-year-old Nigerian man, for entering the country illegally. He later confessed to being the owner the package and left it at the restaurant.

According to police forces, the seized substances are crystal meth and cannabis, with a total weight of roughly 14 kilograms.

The arrestees belong to an international drug trafficking ring operating within the Golden Triangle of Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.

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