According to the
spokesperson for the Prisons authorities, Francis Enobore, Ismail was
recaptured by the Intelligence Unit of the Nigerian Prisons Service with the
support of men of the State Security Service.
Rabi Ismail, a Nigerian
actress who escaped from prison about six years ago, after being sentenced to
death has been recaptured. The actress escaped from lawful custody in Hadejia
Prison on December 16, 2011.
The prisoner bearing number
k/22c Rabi Ismail was sentenced to death by hanging for culpable homicide by a
High Court in Kano on January 5, 2005 for killing her boyfriend, Auwalu
Ibrahim, to acquire his property.
Ismail was subsequently
held in Kaduna Central prison from where she was transferred to Hadejia prison
before she escaped six years ago.
In July 2011, the Supreme
Court upheld the sentence of the lower courts that sentenced her to death by
hanging.
The court found her guilty
of drugging and drowning Ibrahim in 2002 in Kano. Rabi, who was 39 years old
when she escaped six years ago, had lured Ibrahim to a picnic at Tiga Dam,
where she poisoned him with chocolate and pushed him into the dam.
The Controller General of
Prisons expressed appreciation for the assistance rendered by security
agencies, particularly the SSS and the police, in arresting the fugitive.
He appealed to members of
the public to continue to provide useful information to security agents
concerning escapees and, indeed, any criminal element in their midst, noting
that such outlaws pose security threats to the society.
Punch
Sentence to death is too much
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