Nigerian gets death for drug trafficking

Ejiogu Benjamin Ikechukwu was caught with 3.4 kilos of methamphetamine at the city’s Tan Son Nhat Airport on June 23, 2012, after arriving from Thailand. The drugs were found in 19 nylon bags hidden in a battery charger.

Ejiogu claimed during interrogation that he had been asked by another man to carry some goods including 16 pistons and the battery charger to Vietnam, and that he did not know there were drugs inside.