Wednesday 31 May 2017

Condemned female Nigerian prisoner re-arrested five years after escape

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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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