[size=14pt]Michael Ikenna Nduanya, Nigerian sentenced to death for drugs in Vietnam[/size]

A Nigerian has been sentenced to death in Vietnam for transporting heroin, while his Vietnamese wife was jailed for life, a court official said Wednesday.

Michael Ikenna Nduanya, 34, and his common-law spouse Nguyen Thi Hai Anh, 27, were convicted on Tuesday in Ho Chi Minh City, the official said, refusing to be named.

He said the couple were arrested in December 2009, but gave no further details.

The website of Tuoi Tre newspaper, citing the indictment, said Nduanya had asked his wife to collect about one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of heroin from Cambodia. She was arrested at a Ho Chi Minh City bus depot after returning with the drugs, it said.

The report suggested the heroin originated in India and was ultimately destined for China.

Nduanya is the third person to be sentenced to death in Vietnam this year, according to state-controlled media reports tallied by AFP. There were 80 death sentences and four executions last year, according to the tally.

Most death sentences in the communist country are issued for drug and murder cases.

Under a decision by Vietnam's National Assembly, execution by lethal injection is to replace the firing squad on July 1 this year.

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Good news

It gats to be Ibo, init?

Igbo kwenu!

It's not clear why the wife didn't also get capital punishment.  Afterall, being a native of the country, you would expect her to be more familiar with her country's hatred of, and severe penalty for, drug use and drug-trafficking.  Unless she claimed she was not aware she was picking up heroin. 

Anyway, that's a penalty more countries should have on their books.  The only way you can deter it is to put real fear in people's minds.

Get rich or die tryin

fstranger3:

It gats to be Ibo, init?

Uncle 'Agbaya'

what has igbo got to do with it. . .

Hummmmm