A 28 year old Nigerian student, Prince Bartholowmew Obitube, has been sentenced to death by a high court in Malaysia, after he was found guilty of drug trafficking.
The Shah Alam High Court, on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 gave the death penalty to Obitube for trafficking cannabis, also known as marijuana.
According to sources, the accused, a student with a private college in Kuala Lumpur, was arrested with 9,189kg of cannabis at Desa Satu Apartment, Gombak on August 20, 2011.
He was caught by police from the Gombak Narcotic Crime Investigation Department, after a tip off, within the apartment area when he tried to run away with a backpack containing the drugs.
The offense, under the Dangerous Drugs Act in the country, provides a mandatory death sentence upon conviction, a fate that has reportedly befallen several Nigerian students there in the past year.
