The execution of a Nigerian national, Chijioke Obioha for possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking on December 30, 2008 has been announced as November 18.

Obioha was arrested with more than 2.6 kilograms of cannabis, surpassing the statutory amount of 500 grams presumed as drug trafficking in Singapore on April 9, 2007.

He was also found with keys to a room containing some other drugs.

Obioha had appealed his initial sentence which was rejected in 2010.

“Chijioke Stephen Obioha graduated in Industrial Chemistry from Benin University in Nigeria. He moved to Singapore in 2005, seeking to join a football club. His family members, who currently live in Nigeria and the United Kingdom, have been unable to travel to visit and had limited ability to assist him. Throughout the duration of the proceedings, they have received sporadic and often delayed updates, including when a legal representative was removed from the case,” Amnesty International stated.

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