The kidnapper, Mercy Paul, who escaped after been arrested
over kidnapping of several Kano Children and sold them in Anambra State has
been rearrested by the Department of the State Security and the Kano
Correctional Center Kano state.
Mercy Paul was arrested along others for allegedly
kidnapping several Kano children and selling them in Anambra State sometimes
last year 2019.
However, on 31th January 2020, Mercy Paul was said to have
escaped from hospital where she was taken for medication after falling ill at
Kano Kurmawa Correctional Centre where she is waiting trail.
The Comptroller of the Kano Correctional Centre, Ahmad
Abdullahi Magaji told Newsmen that on 31th January, at about 12.05pm, he was
told that Mercy had escaped from the hands of their officers who took her to
Murtala Muhammad hospital for medication.
Magaji said on hearing of the news of Mercy’s escape, he
quickly went to the scene where he conducted some investigation and found out
that the culprit was bleeding and she requested to go to the toilet where she
maneuvered her way and ran away.
“Immediately after realising such unfortunate incident, we
organised a stop and search by condoning all the entrances of Kano in
collaboration with the DSS”.
He said the DSS helped them to track her down on Monday,
17th February 2020 from where she was hiding at a particular place and She was
taken to the hospital by the Department of State Security where they gave her
all necessary medical attention to help her fully recover.
The Comptroller who commended Governor Ganduje for ensuring
synergy between Security officials in Kano, also thumbs up the DSS and other
security agencies for helping them to track down the fleeing children
kidnapping suspect.
He said, ” If somebody escaped from our custody, they would
be investigated and if it is negligence on the part of our officers, it is
outright dismissal and if it is negligence, growth misconduct, aiding and
abetting, conspiracy, thenone would be dismissed and also face the wrath of the
law”.
The Comptroller assured that with the full supports of their
Comptroller General, Alhaji Jaafaru Ahmad, and President Muhammadu Buhari, they
have their own personal equipped clinic to carter for patients.
