Cambodian Court Sentences Nigerian Man Samuel Okeke & His Wife To 25 Years In Jail For Smuggling Heroin. ANigerian man and his Vietnamese wife were sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday after being found guilty at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court of smuggling 1.5 kg of heroin from Cambodia to Australia in 2014.
Samuel Amechi Okeke, 34, and his wife Ho Thi Nhu Thuy, 26, were arrested in July 2014 after customs officials in Australia intercepted 10 backpacks lined with heroin that they had mailed from the Dangkao district post office in May that year, according to police. They were subsequently charged with drug trafficking.
On trial last month, Ms. Thuy admitted to mailing the backpacks but said she did so at the request of a friend and was unaware they contained heroin. Mr. Okeke said he knew nothing about the drugs.
On Thursday, the court ruled that he did.
“The court decides to sentence, firstly, Samuel Amechi Okeke, 34, Nigerian, to 25 years in prison and fine him 50 million riel [about $12,500],” Presiding Judge Than Leng announced in the courtroom, going on to read out an identical sentence for Ms. Thuy.
While being escorted from the courtroom, Mr. Okeke expressed disappointment about the ruling. “How can I accept?” he said.
Hun Rithy, a deputy bureau chief at the Interior Ministry’s internal security department who led the initial investigation into the case, said he was satisfied with the verdict.
“It is appropriate because they are husband and wife, and they colluded,” he said.
Mr. Okeke, who has been in provisional detention at Phnom Penh’s maximum-security Prey Sar prison since his arrest in 2014, is also facing trafficking charges over 13 kg of methamphetamine seized from a Cambodian man in Phnom Penh late last month—the biggest drug seizure of the year.
According to military police, the drugs were part of a distribution ring being operated by Mr. Okeke with four other inmates. All six suspects in the case were charged with trafficking on March 4.
Good for him.
Now u come not an igbo man,lolzz (Nigerian man)
That na Shola and Kemi, Gossip Mill Nigeria. Give us the true story U0001f621U0001f621U0001f621U0001f621U0001f621
That na Shola and Kemi, Gossip Mill Nigeria. Give us the true story U0001f621U0001f621U0001f621U0001f621U0001f621
PDP FANS na buhari cause this one too
PDP FANS na buhari cause this one too
Do u know I have serious problem, with Gossipmill that make me assumes the admin is from Eastern Nigeria, this scenario tannish the image of Igbo people, but they tag it Nigerian, if it was a Yoruba man the reverse is the case. WHY
Do u know I have serious problem, with Gossipmill that make me assumes the admin is from Eastern Nigeria, this scenario tannish the image of Igbo people, but they tag it Nigerian, if it was a Yoruba man the reverse is the case. WHY
dat place don cast na
dat place don cast na
It’s normal with Nigerians. It’s a normal thing. Na some of them that . This one no concern buhari
It’s normal with Nigerians. It’s a normal thing. Na some of them that . This one no concern buhari
Hey Nigeria again
Hey Nigeria again
Nigerians in cambodia??? Wetin carry dem go that kind place…gossip mill u guys are knuckleheads why do u post this kind of news hereU0001f621U0001f621U0001f621
Nigerians in cambodia??? Wetin carry dem go that kind place…gossip mill u guys are knuckleheads why do u post this kind of news hereU0001f621U0001f621U0001f621
That man is witch hunter why? Is he the only one? Let the fight against drug be holistic. Lol
That man is witch hunter why? Is he the only one? Let the fight against drug be holistic. Lol
Keep quiet you have nothing to say
Keep quiet you have nothing to say
Deus tenha com vosco
The stupid ones will be at home talking Trish and if him no have problem when him come back they will be asking him money Nigeria at home talk Trish when they see any online Nigerians living outside have problem if you don’t know what to say don’t talk Trish..
Anthony Hayward Spot on
Serves him right, ochoro ego mbute
He is a true Biafran…….that is their work abroad
Some igbo comment be like are you mad? We all know some igbo people are blessed through illegal business why complaining about gossip mill publishing what they see .
Difference between igbos and other major tribes is dt.. The igbos do not steal from the country’s treasury dy prefer tapping from outside and bring it home but yorubas and hausa prefer to steal dry Nigeria and take it outside.. tell me who is more stupid and foolish
That serve them right
Love of money as destroyed their family ego hummm
igbo will go out and make money,yoruba and hausa still from the country.
Samuel D Akinola shut ur mouth, u want to look good out sid and look bad insid, that is y hausa and yoruba take nigerian money to foregin land so thae they will look good,when oyibo came to africa they take ur resuses and go back ur think like a fool.
Igbo kwenu! family in prison. up biafraud
Here you go again! It keeps coming. When will this end? Will it ever have an end ? Get rich at all cost.
For you drug – pushers, the era of successful haul is over. With recent developments, even drugs in your bone marrow can be easily detected. Therefore, pushing drugs is no longer lucrative. In some countries like Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, it is death by hanging. This guy is lucky it is Cambodia, that’s why he will live to see tomorrow.
Partners in crime
@UchenduUche, I believe Allison Madueke, Alex Badeh, Godswill Akpabio, Orosanye, Ilerikha, James Ibori and so on are from Igbo side and the atrocity they caused with their loots is still fresh in our minds. The painful aspect of this post is that when Igbo men did well they claim Biafran but when they found themselves in shameful acts they claim Nigeria. Camelion people.
Hahahaha Yoruba boys do drugs more than any tribe in Nigeria…another thing is to born children in abroad is no easy for them…Nigeria look like Suadi Arabia children full everywhere at orphanage nobody want to take them…they don’t look like mix-children at all…they just look like Sudanese hahahahahaha honestly.
Jabar when people are talking about corruption can you plz hide your face in shame..
Evil Hausa elders create boko haram to kill their own people, share arms deals money just to make money…oh God, the blood of the innocent must fight back.
Last 2 years a whole deputy governor son from the north was caught with drugs at Malaysia airport..hmmmmmmm don’t just allow me to say something here okay.
Guy u are wrong. All ur past n present igbo governors n senators all have foreign accounts. Rochas has millions of dollars in a bank in north Carolina – d likes of Orji Udo Kalu too. Wetin u dey yan?
E get where Nigerians no dey? Igbos many there for your info
@ least some igbos didn’t support this. Una get sense
Anthony Hayward god punish all your generation idiot
damn prick head
Hahaha….pray u get to my age sef…..bcos u may not….
Good for them so no one is able to checkmate one another what a fool are they.
Less insults please.
Nne oma speak na odeshi.
Dumbass drug pushers……u will be the next to be caught……don’t go to Indonesia o…bcos they shoot drug pushers there
That is bad and Yes he is Biafra…. we are not all saints na…. bad ones dey too… lol
You are a moron, to steal from another country is such a big disgrace…. Use your brain man
He is a biafran just like I am.He is a saint to all the politicians in nigeria.
I thought am the only one who noticed what this amibo mill or gossip mill is doing. Is like he is from Yoruba once is Yoruba case he won’t indicate it like this of Igbo people. Is too bad OK. This is Hypocrite. Beside all of them is hustling. Even those people that arrested them are doing same. So make una leave that thing even the hardest criminal will still comment rubbish here no one is perfect. Including u gossip mill. Have u for one day posted any of ur bad side here for the whole world to see? Some will come and claim holy here abeg no body holy pass. Does that are perfect are perfected by the Grace of God. They are hustling.
Bia ewu can beer will u please hide some where cuz u re out of point check ur medulla is getting low. Mugu 20. U re there eating mama tank ma. If MEN come out u ll join abi?