The four drug trafficking suspects detained at the Toul Kork police station.
Source: Deum Ampil newspaper and everyday.com
Reported in English by Khmerization
Three Nigerian men and a Sierra Leonian woman were arrested for drug trafficking on 27th July in Phnom Penh. Police said the four people were arrested at 4:30 pm at a house on Street 588 in Toul Kork District with 598.51 grams of heroin found hidden inside the house.
During the search of the house, police found five Nigerian passports and 2083 naira (Nigerian currency) plus a Casio scale.
The three arrested Nigerians were 39 year-old Mr. Jougvuma Remi-Ubi, 33 year-old Mr. Ouyuk Basil Jougo Abouga, 34 year-old Mr. Moustak-Im Manoul and 30 year-old Ms. Issy Fanta.
Police said the arrests happened during a head count (census) by immigration police of foreigners living in the Toul Kork district.
When the police went to do a head count at house number 48 on Street 588, Mr. Ouyuk Basil Jougo Abouga who is renting the house panicked and tried to escape. He was seen throwing five small packets of plastic bags out of the windows into the street. Neighbours then brought the packets to the police and they were later identified as containing heroin in a series of tests in the laboratories. The Toul Kork police, in collaboration with anti-drug trafficking police obtained an arrest warrant to detain the four suspects.
The four are currently being detained at Toul Kork police station waiting for an appearance at the Phnom Penh Court.
Source: Deum Ampil newspaper and everyday.com
Reported in English by Khmerization
Three Nigerian men and a Sierra Leonian woman were arrested for drug trafficking on 27th July in Phnom Penh. Police said the four people were arrested at 4:30 pm at a house on Street 588 in Toul Kork District with 598.51 grams of heroin found hidden inside the house.
During the search of the house, police found five Nigerian passports and 2083 naira (Nigerian currency) plus a Casio scale.
The three arrested Nigerians were 39 year-old Mr. Jougvuma Remi-Ubi, 33 year-old Mr. Ouyuk Basil Jougo Abouga, 34 year-old Mr. Moustak-Im Manoul and 30 year-old Ms. Issy Fanta.
Police said the arrests happened during a head count (census) by immigration police of foreigners living in the Toul Kork district.
When the police went to do a head count at house number 48 on Street 588, Mr. Ouyuk Basil Jougo Abouga who is renting the house panicked and tried to escape. He was seen throwing five small packets of plastic bags out of the windows into the street. Neighbours then brought the packets to the police and they were later identified as containing heroin in a series of tests in the laboratories. The Toul Kork police, in collaboration with anti-drug trafficking police obtained an arrest warrant to detain the four suspects.
The four are currently being detained at Toul Kork police station waiting for an appearance at the Phnom Penh Court.
In June, 23 Nigerians were arrested for drug trafficking during the raids across Phnom Penh city.
10 comments:
How come most, if not all, foreigners arrested for drug trafficking are Nigerians?
Are these Nigerians coming to live in Cambodia to take advantage of the lawlessness in Cambodia so they can deal drug easily?
did the Cambodian police play any part in this drug dealing? Usually Cambodian anti-drug police, who are corrupt to the bones, are dealing drug themselves.
wonderful, this is getting out of hand now. Any black man in cambodia arrested for drugs turns out to be Nigeria..... What is the nigerian government or embassy doing to launder this bad image being given to its nationals.
As a bonafide Nigerian myself, i can stand boldly to say not all nigerians are into this trade in cambodia or elsewhere as the case may be.
Going by the names here, i don't think any of them are indeed Nigerians
They should be tortured and made to confess their true identity, its high time all well meaning nigeria come out to protest these bad image.
remember if one finger is soiled with oil, other will surely be soiled too.
Well SAID, Vietnam has recently joined Singapore and Indonesia on death penalty for drug peddlers, i GUESS this people are now running to Cambodia because of its liberalness,
If the military are high ranking people in cambodia are innocent of these drug peddling, then they should be bold to enact such a death penalty law and lets see if the trend will not reduce.
Death penalty in Cambodia will see innocent people being sentenced to death and the culprits, mostly high-ranking officials, will get away as the judicial systems and the police are corrupt.
I suspect that these people are dealing drug with the involvements of the police but got arrested because something goes wrong.
It is sad that drug dealers and traffickers are now taking advantage of the lawlessness in Cambodia. With the corrupt police, these drug dealers enjoy protection until the deals go sour.
If there could be no stiffer penalty to make these drug peddlers disist from the act then i personally dont see an end to it.
The government of most contries cry wolf whenever it comes to combacting drugs but it obvious that they mastermind the acts.
Looking at cambodian society, the military men live in affluence riding posh cars with most of them earning less than 200usd per month.
One begins to wonder where they get money to fund their flamboyant livestyle.
Its sad that Nigerians are made the scape goats when it comes to drug in cambodia whereas the real perpertrators goes unnoticed.
Well said, 11:24am. The answer is that they commit corruption, including dealing drug, to be able to afford posh cars and luxury villas.
The lawlessness in Cambodia and the corrupt police and judicial system made Cambodia become the destination and a safe haven for international criminals.
Drug addiction is disease. We don't lock up alcohol addicts, do we?
I would be very interested to see if the death penalty for drug dealers in other countries has reduce the problem of drugs in those countries. We hear of cases every year in Singapore and Indonesia of people being executed for drugs. This suggests that draconian laws do not work.
We don't execute alcoholics even though it is known that alcohol causes more violence and social instability than all the other 'illegal' drugs put together. Why, therefore, is alcohol allowed while other 'drugs' are banned.
Where there is demand, there will be a supply. It is foolish to think that combating drugs, in some American style 'war on drugs', will solve the problem.
Do some real research which will help develop the country and stop playing for the votes of the lowest common denomitor. They are not that well-informed.
It is quite disheartening to read through the papers about Nigerians been held for drug trafficking. I think they are just been made the scape goats here. Most foreigners in Cambodia, starting from the Westerners to the Asians like koreans,Indians, Pakistanians, Chinese and Japanese etc.. all commit various crimes including drug trafficking but they are covered by the corrupt police officials.
Why are they not caught and have them appear on the front page of the newspapers? I think this is an act of racism against blacks in this country because the whites commit more crimes including child abuse but no one ever hears about them because they bribe the police to cover up their crimes.
It is really a pity that we live in a society where the whites claims superiority over the blacks
This is individual crime being caught by Nigeria citizen what are you people expecting them to say.are they going to say an Africa man doing drugs that wasn't make sense.its reality they are nigerians but we nigerians this rubbish is getting out of hand. to be a luxury man in life is not only by doing drugs.We know we are all intilligent but why are we utilizied it only on DRUGS.This is the only country remain in this Asia that giving Africa job oppurtunities. to my own observation l prays CAMBODIA.
Pusher ooo Pusher . I Understand the way una dey hustle sha . But make una start dey make wise use of una SENSE .
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