Singapore’s Court of Appeal has acquitted a Nigerian man, Adili Chibuike, of drug trafficking charges.
Mr Adili, who was arrested on arrival in Singapore in 2011, had been on death row for over two years on drug charges and six years in jail.
He had been detained since 2013 and sentenced to death by hanging after his conviction in April 2017 for being in possession of nearly two kilos of methamphetamine.
The Court of Appeal on Monday quashed the conviction after it arrived at the conclusion that Adili did not know that the drugs were in his suitcase when he was instructed by childhood friends to hand it to someone else in Singapore.
The drugs were hidden in the inner lining of the suitcase.
Adili told TODAY via an interpreter that he was thankful for the ruling.
“All I want is to go back home and recover from the past years of my prison sentence before I think about that,” Adili said referring to his future plans back in Nigeria.
