The Adamawa State Police Command has captured a 23-year-old Kuje prison escapee, named Abubakar Mohammed.
The Adamawa Commissioner of Police, CP Sikiru Akande, in a statement, on Thursday, said Mohammed was trying to cross from Adamawa to his home in Borno State on Wednesday, July 20.
It was gathered that Abubakar had confessed to facing terrorism charges and had been at the Kuje prison since 2017 before the recent breakout from the facility.
Abubakar was picked up after days of surveillance exercise in different parts of Adamawa State by police operatives among 12 other suspects.
The statement by stressed that Abubakar had disclosed that he had been in detention at the Kuje facility since 2017 over alleged involvement in terrorism.
Of the 12 other suspects that the command also arrested, Akande said they were suspected kidnappers and armed robbers and that assorted weapons had been recovered from them.