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45-year-old Ekwegbalu James Nzube has been sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Vietnam
Nzube was apprehended by border guards in Tay Ninh Province while trying to cross illegally into Vietnam last July with about four kilogrammes of meth found inside his rucksack.
Southern Tay Ninh Province of Vietnam Court on Tuesday sentenced him to death for drug trafficking.
The trafficker of nearly four kilogrammes of methamphetamine from Cambodia said he got acquainted with another Nigerian, Jone, in China in 2014, and the latter had hired him to transport drugs from Cambodia to Vietnam.
In March 2020, he came to Ho Chi Minh City before going to Cambodia to fetch the drugs for which he was paid $2,000 (about N800, 000).
