A condemned prisoner,
Rabi Ismail, who escaped from custody in the Hadejia Prison, Jigawa State, on
December 16, 2011, has been recaptured.
The fugitive was
arrested by the Intelligence Unit of the Nigerian Prisons Service with the
support of men of the Department of State Services.
Ismail was sentenced to
death by hanging for culpable homicide by a High Court in Kano on January 5,
2005.
“She was held in the
Kaduna Central Prison, from where she was transferred to the Hadejia Prison
before she escaped about five years ago,” the Prison Service Public Relations
Officer, Francis Enobore, said in a statement on Tuesday.
He expressed the
appreciation of the Controller-General of Prisons, Jaa’faru Ahmed to the DSS
and the police for their assistance in recapturing the fugitive.
He appealed to members
of the public to continue to provide useful information on escapees and other
criminal elements to security agents, noting that such outlaws posed security
threat to the society.
Enobore said the CG had
directed that security measures be strengthened to prevent prison inmates from
escaping.
“Other escapees still at
large will be fished out no matter how long it takes,” he added.
- Punch
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