Condemned Hausa film actress, Rabi Ismail who escaped from prison, rearrested after 6 years

Condemned Hausa film actress, Rabi Ismail, who escaped from prison about six years ago, after death sentence was passed on her has been recaptured.

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.

The court found her guilty for 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

She was subsequently held in Kaduna Central prison from where she was transferred to Hadejia prison before she escaped on December 16, 2011.

Spokesperson for the Prisons authorities, Francis Enobore, said she was recaptured by the Intelligence Unit of the Nigerian Prisons Service with the support of men of DSS.

The Controller General of Prisons showed his appreciation to the assistance rendered by security agencies particularly the DSS and the police in arresting Ismail.

He appealed to members of the public to continue to provide useful information on escapees and indeed any criminal element in their midst to security agents, noting that such outlaws pose security threats to the society.

He assures that security measures have been strengthened to prevent persons in prison custody from escaping.