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Kannywood actress, Rabi Ismail who escaped from prison about six years ago after being sentenced to death, has been recaptured.
The actress, now 46 years old, escaped mysteriously from custody in Hadejia Prisons, Jigawa State, on December 16, 2011 without breaking walls or digging tunnels. Prison officials believed then she was aided by insiders.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Francis Enobore, spokesperson for the prisons authorities, confirmed that Ismail was re-arrested through collaboration between the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) and Department of State Service (DSS).
Ismail, also known as Rabi Cecilia, in 2005 was found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced to death by a High Court in Kano. Her case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where the sentence was affirmed in 2011.
She was alleged to have murdered her boyfriend, Ibrahim Auwalu, in 2002.
The actress was said to have lured Ibrahim to a picnic at Tiga Dam, where she poisoned him with chocolate and pushed him into the dam.
She was initially held at the Kaduna Central Prison from where she was transferred to Hadejia prison before she escaped.
The actress, now 46 years old, escaped mysteriously from custody in Hadejia Prisons, Jigawa State, on December 16, 2011 without breaking walls or digging tunnels. Prison officials believed then she was aided by insiders.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Francis Enobore, spokesperson for the prisons authorities, confirmed that Ismail was re-arrested through collaboration between the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) and Department of State Service (DSS).
Ismail, also known as Rabi Cecilia, in 2005 was found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced to death by a High Court in Kano. Her case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where the sentence was affirmed in 2011.
She was alleged to have murdered her boyfriend, Ibrahim Auwalu, in 2002.
The actress was said to have lured Ibrahim to a picnic at Tiga Dam, where she poisoned him with chocolate and pushed him into the dam.
She was initially held at the Kaduna Central Prison from where she was transferred to Hadejia prison before she escaped.
