Drug trafficking: Nigerian footballer bags 8 years imprisonment in Cambodia

A 30-year-old Nigerian, Mr. Francis Ihenwe Oderah, who claimed to be a ‘footballer’, has bagged eight years imprisonment for drug related offence in the Asian country of Cambodia.

Oderah was on July 4, sentenced to eight years imprisonment in a Cambodian Phenom Penh Municipal Court, he was also fined $10,000 for the crime.

According to an online portal, Emmanuel Babatunde.com, Oderah was arrested in January, in Cambodia.  He had told his family and relatives that he travelled to the Asian country for professional football career.

Rather, 100 grams of meth was found on him upon arrival in Cambodia. He was arrested and detained by the Cambodian Police in Phenom Penh’s Choam Chao region. The meth he carried had a purity of about 72 per cent. Oderah will carry out his sentence in Prey Sar Prison, where he had been detained since his arrest in January.

The Judge, who presided over the case, Svay Tonh, ruled that the three phones and a passport collected from the defendant upon his arrest would be returned at the end of his prison term in 2024.