A Vietnam court on August 17th reduced a death sentence previously handed to 33 year old Nigerian man, Ejiogu Benjamin Ikechukwu, pictured above, for bringing methamphetamine into Vietnam, to life imprisonment.

Ejiogu Benjamin Ikechukwu was in June 2012 apprehended with 3.3 kilograms of the banned drug 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 only planned to come to Vietnam to buy clothes to resell them in Nigeria and had no idea about the drug in his luggage. According to him, a man asked him to carry the tubes and the charger to Vietnam and that someone would pick them up.

A Vietnam court heard the case brought against him by Vietnam police in August 2013 and sentenced him to death, but he appealed the verdict. Vietnam Supreme Court then canceled the verdict, ordering a new investigation. Investigators could not track down the people who had used him as a drug mule.

According to Vietnam law, anyone convicted of smuggling more than 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine in Vietnam face the death penalty.

You better thank God

The life in prisonment can still be reviewed to few years jail terms. With God all things are possible.
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Hang on, son of the East, you will scale through.

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Sijo01:
The life in prisonment can still be reviewed to few years jail terms. With God all things are possible.
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Hang on, son of the East, you will scale through.

so you now want plenty of them to go around foolishly committing a crime because they can get a less harsh sentence abi

hmm, lucky boy, if it was in Nigeria I doubt any investigation would be carried out after receiving a court sentence.

Ooh how i wished those malaysia guys executed with given this opportunity?