Suleja jailbreaker rearrested one year after escape, police nab another robbery syndicate in Niger

By Wole Mosadomi, Minna

The Niger State Police Command has rearrested a fugitive convict, Jemilu Ibrahim, 1 twelvemonth aft helium escaped from the Suleja Correctional Centre pursuing a torrential rainfall that caused portion of the facility’s partition to collapse.

Ibrahim, who had been serving a jailhouse word for equipped robbery earlier the jailbreak, was apprehended during a regular patrol by operatives of the “B” Division, Suleja, connected October 15, 2025, astatine astir 8:30 p.m.

In a connection issued successful Minna, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, said Ibrahim was intercepted on the Suleja–Madalla Road with a instrumentality of illicit substances and respective suspected stolen items, including ATM cards and mobile phones.

“Preliminary probe revealed that helium had been prosecuted for equipped robbery earlier his flight during the 2024 Suleja Correctional Centre partition collapse,” the connection read.

The constabulary confirmed that the fugitive had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for onward handover to the Correctional Service.

In a related development, the constabulary besides arrested a 23-year-old suspect, Lukman Umar, aft rescuing him from being lynched by a mob successful Suleja.

According to SP Abiodun, Umar attempted to fly without paying for a repast astatine a nutrient stall adjacent Kantoma Bridge successful the aboriginal hours of October 19, 2025, earlier constabulary operatives intervened.

Further probe revealed that Umar was portion of a robbery syndicate operating successful the area, specializing successful the theft of vehicles, motorcycles, and phones.

He reportedly named his accomplices arsenic Saifullahi Ibrahim (34), Lawali, Garba, and Ayuba. Police aboriginal arrested Saifullahi astatine his Dakwa residence, wherever 3 locally fabricated revolver guns and 2 knives were recovered.

Both suspects confessed to posing arsenic assemblage vigilantes to transportation retired their transgression activities.

SP Abiodun added that investigations were ongoing to apprehend different members of the syndicate, aft which the suspects would beryllium charged to court.

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