NIGERIAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG SMUGGLING IN MALAYSIA


A 35-year old Nigerian man, Abuchi Ngwoke, has been sentenced to death for drug trafficking by a Malaysian Hight Court. Abuchi Ngwoke was accosted at a Malaysian airport and arrested afterwards after being found with 251.66 grams of Mathapethamine. He swallowed gemstones in Nigeria before boarding a flight to the Southeast Asian country. After being found guilty of drug trafficking, a Malaysian High Court judge said Abuchi Ngwoke’s attempt to smuggle drugs into the country by swallowing them was “absurd”
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Abuchi Ngwoke was yesterday, Tuesday November 25, sentenced to death. A date has not been set for his execution.

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