Lifeline: Vietnamese Court Overturns Death Verdict On Nigerian Drug Trafficker

Date: 18-08-2015 3:30 pm (8 years ago) | Author: Bayo Nelson
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A Vietnam court, Monday, converted a death sentence previously handed to a 33-year-old Nigerian, Ejiogu Benjamin Ikechukwu, for bringing methamphetamine into Vietnam, to life imprisonment. The accused was apprehended in June 2012 with 3.3 kilograms of methamphetamine, which had been banned. It was concealed in metal tubes and a laptop charger in his luggage as he flew to Tan Son Nhat in Vietnam. When he was arrested, Ejiogu said he had no idea about the drug in his luggage.I only planned to come to Vietnam to buy clothes to resell them in Nigeria,” he said. According to him, a man asked him to carry the tubes and the charger to Vietnam and that someone would pick them up. A case and charges, however, were proffered against him by Vietnam police in August 2013. According to Vietnam law, anyone convicted of smuggling more than 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine in Vietnam, faces the death penalty.Vietnam Supreme Court, which ruled over the case, sentenced him to death, but he appealed the verdict. The court then canceled the verdict, ordering a new investigation. Investigators are still on the lookout, but haven’t been able to track down the people who had used him as a drug mule, according to his statement.


Posted: at 18-08-2015 03:30 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
- Blessed75 at 18-08-2015 03:45 PM (8 years ago)
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You maybe lucky
Posted: at 18-08-2015 03:45 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Wysetots at 18-08-2015 03:49 PM (8 years ago)
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Good for him
Posted: at 18-08-2015 03:49 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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- Wysetots at 18-08-2015 03:49 PM (8 years ago)
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Good for him
Posted: at 18-08-2015 03:49 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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- PoliticxGuru at 18-08-2015 03:58 PM (8 years ago)
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nxt time u go dey very careful
Posted: at 18-08-2015 03:58 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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- papadip at 18-08-2015 04:04 PM (8 years ago)
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I am happy for him…because I don’t believe in capital punishment.
Posted: at 18-08-2015 04:04 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- papadip at 18-08-2015 04:07 PM (8 years ago)
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Quote from: PoliticxGuru on 18-08-2015 03:58 PM
nxt time u go dey very careful
What next time? That will never happen again...
.......even if and when he is paroled which will not be immediate.
Posted: at 18-08-2015 04:07 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- chealseafc at 18-08-2015 04:11 PM (8 years ago)
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 Lips Sealed
Posted: at 18-08-2015 04:11 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- victorstic1 at 18-08-2015 04:35 PM (8 years ago)
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IGBOKWENU I HAIL UNA MY BROS WE NO DEY CARRY LAST
Posted: at 18-08-2015 04:35 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- beneno at 18-08-2015 04:54 PM (8 years ago)
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Again ?
Posted: at 18-08-2015 04:54 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- proly at 18-08-2015 04:59 PM (8 years ago)
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Hmmmm
Posted: at 18-08-2015 04:59 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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- winace at 18-08-2015 05:05 PM (8 years ago)
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Make dem catch those drug mule o. Lolss. Anyway una thank u for overturning d verdict. Maybe later una go free am cum serve him jail terms in naija.
Posted: at 18-08-2015 05:05 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- elchymo at 18-08-2015 05:28 PM (8 years ago)
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He shld be thankful for life imprisonment. It's beta to be alive than dead
Posted: at 18-08-2015 05:28 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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- dickieponga at 18-08-2015 05:54 PM (8 years ago)
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Quote from: beneno on 18-08-2015 04:54 PM
Again ?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
If u don't succeed at 1st try, try, and keep trying till u get caught...
Posted: at 18-08-2015 05:54 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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- dickman2 at 18-08-2015 06:12 PM (8 years ago)
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e don happen..
Posted: at 18-08-2015 06:12 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- dickman2 at 18-08-2015 06:13 PM (8 years ago)
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e don happen..
Posted: at 18-08-2015 06:13 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- angesco at 18-08-2015 06:52 PM (8 years ago)
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Life in prison in VIETNAM?

Good luck!
Posted: at 18-08-2015 06:52 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- kenosas at 18-08-2015 07:17 PM (8 years ago)
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why people not want take this life easy,nothing for this life when person dey take his or her life for such extreme risk,if u rich good ,but in good way that does affects ur life and other people life ,but if you not still get the money it not reach to trowey pot of soup from fire afterall u are not the richest neither you re the poorest in dis world,una hear.
Posted: at 18-08-2015 07:17 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- gogoman at 18-08-2015 07:23 PM (8 years ago)
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my guy death for good oo!! veitnam life jail no good ooo
Posted: at 18-08-2015 07:23 PM (8 years ago) | Grande Master
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- babafero at 18-08-2015 07:40 PM (8 years ago)
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Death AND Life Sentence is all the same because he will never see Nigeria and family again... Very bad
Posted: at 18-08-2015 07:40 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
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