Crime Nigerian Man Fleeing Cambodia Caught at Thai Border

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In a desperate bid to flee Cambodia’s economic woes, a Nigerian trader paid a Cambodian agent $400 (approximately 12,932 baht), hoping for a smooth escape into Thailand. Instead, soldiers found him abandoned in a sugarcane field near the Thai border before apprehending him.

 

Colonel Chainarong Kasee, who led a joint task force comprising local police and military units, was alerted about an illegal crossing on the 13th of August.

 

In the vicinity of Kud Hin village, Aranyaprathet, authorities discovered 35-year-old Chigozie Franklin Onyenakzi, a Nigerian national, wandering alone in the fields, holding an expired passport.

 

Through an interpreter, Onyenakzi revealed that he had formerly worked in Thailand's online trading sector before relocating to Cambodia for over six months.

 

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Unable to withstand Cambodia's harsh economic conditions and suffering from health issues, he sought a way back to Thailand to secure travel documents from the embassy in order to return to Nigeria.

 

Onyenakzi contacted a Cambodian agent through Facebook, introduced by an African acquaintance.

 

Despite paying the hefty fee, he found himself stranded in the cane field instead of receiving the assistance he had anticipated. Now under Thai custody, he faces immigration violation charges as authorities proceed with legal actions.

 

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from Daily News 2025-08-13

 

[JoePai]

He's a liar, why did he not go to the Nigerian Embassy in Cambodia 

[quake]

Just one more dodgy git.

Deport him.