a 20 year old Ghanaian was sentenced to death in Singapore for trafficking 2.6 kgs of cannabis

a 20 year old Ghanaian was sentenced to death in Singapore for trafficking 2.6 kgs of cannabis, the Straits Times reported. The High Court convicted and sentenced Chijioke Stephen Obioha after a 21-day trial held in 2008. Narcotics officers arrested Obioha in April 2007 following a surveillance operation. He had come to Singapore in 2005 to try out for a football club, the report said. He was not hired but remained in the city-state working as a middle man for electronics goods dealers. His immigration pass expired in January 2007.