The possibility of facing a death penalty seem to be confronting a Nigerian and an Australian nurse after a Malaysian court on Tuesday charged them with trafficking methamphetamines in the country.
The Nigerian Esikalam Ndidi alongside The Australian Emma Louise L’Aiguille were charged in a Kuala Lumpur court two weeks after police said they were arrested in possession of one kilogramme of the banned drug.
It is said that Drug trafficking carries a mandatory death sentence by hanging in Malaysia, where hundreds of people are on death row, mostly for drug offences.
Anyone found to be in possession of at least 50 grams of methamphetamine is considered a trafficker.
The duo were in a car when police arrested them, attorney Muhammad Shafee Abdullah told reporters after the court appearance.
Muhammad Shafee was representing the Australian nurse while Ndidi was not represented by legal counsel at the hearing.
Police told L’Aiguille, who had been driving, that drugs were later found in the car, the attorney said.
Muhammad Shafee said two other Nigerians — L’Aiguille’s boyfriend and another man — had also been in the car but had left the vehicle just prior to the arrests. Police are currently searching for the boyfriend, he added.
“She is completely depressed. She just does not understand how all this could happen to her. She was just driving the car,” Muhammad Shafee said.
He said L’Aiguille was a nurse who was in Malaysia as a tourist and had visited the country several times over the past two years.
He complained that defence lawyers were only allowed one ten-minute meeting with her before the court appearance.
The next court appearance was set for October 1. Please are not normally heard at the time defendants are charged.
Since 1960, more than 440 people have been executed in Malaysia, including two Australians put to death in 1986 for heroin trafficking that made headlines as they were the first Westerners to be executed under tough new anti-drug laws.
GOOD TO GO. JUST KILL THEM. TRAFFICKERS SHOULD TAKE NOTE. YOU CAN NOT BEAT ALL THE LAWS.
you are a big fool for saying that instead of sympathizin with them. idiot travel ‘n see
The drug trafficking is the biggest and most heinous crime in the world. They should not be left free because they not only killing people but also creating fear among human being by spreading wrong information on drugs.
i doubt if you are educated ,was that your best contribution ? travel ‘n see
NO, NO, NO. PLEASE. I HATE THOSE WICKED COMMENTS UP THERE. NO KILLING PLEASE. MANY HAVE DIED.
Damn what the hell are you guys talking of..you mean they should kill your follow guy? oh that is shit mehhh please u guys should have mercy on them it is written in BIBLE that thou shall not kill
@Wazobia u full of shit for saying that… Come abroad make you see how life be.. If not Nigerian’s bad governments we all should have been at home (9ja)with mind rest. 9ija abeg try better. world people feel this…