29-yr-old Nigerian sentenced to death in Malaysia

monjola sotubo 07:34 - 21 March 2015

Nigerian drug trafficker Samuel Iwachekwu Okoye is taken from his cell to meet with prosecutors two days before he was executed on Nusa Kambangan Island, Central Java on June 26 2008.

29-year-old Luke Nnaemeka Ugwu was, on Friday, March 20, found guilty of trafficking 725.4 gm of methamphetamine and sentenced to die by hanging.

A Nigerian man resident in Malaysia has been sentenced to death for drug trafficking.

29-year-old Luke Nnaemeka Ugwu was, on Friday, March 20, found guilty of trafficking 725.4 gm of methamphetamine and sentenced to die by hanging.

Ugwu was said to have committed the offence at arrival hall of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on May 15, 2012.

In delivering the judgment, Justice Datuk Abdul Alim Abdullah found his defence to be a mere denial and not sufficient to prove his innocence.

Two other Nigerians escaped death in the same court when one 31-year-old Onyeme Chibunna Okechukwu pleaded guilty to drug possession while another, 29-year-old Obdiegwu Chinwuba Sigismund was acquitted of all charges.