One more of the eight jail breakers of the Sekondi Central Prison has been arrested by a joint military and police team.
One more G3 rifle has also been recovered.
Known as Awudu Bukari, a Fulani herdsman, the escapee, who was serving a 50-year sentence for robbery, was arrested at Nyameasi, a village on the banks of the Pra River near Beposo in the Shama District of the Western Region.
His capture brings to six the number of jail breakers arrested after they had escaped from the Sekondi Prison on Sunday, May 2, 2010.
One of the escapees, a Nigerian national, Raphael Ayo Bouro, and three others are said to have in their custody the remaining arms and the joint military-police team are hunting for them.
According to the Western Regional Police Command, Awudu Bukari surfaced in the Nyameasi village at about 11:40 pm on Wednesday and told the villagers that he went to a farm with a woman who contracted him but could not find his way back to the road.
The police said the villagers directed him, but he came back saying he could not find the way, which aroused the villagers’ suspicion that he was one of the escapees.
They led him towards the road but upon reaching a point, he told them to go back and that he could find his way.
The villagers then pounced on him and took him to the Beposo Police Station, where on hearing the duty officer calling the prison officers to come and identify him, Bukari took to his heels.
He was given a chase and later arrested and identified by the prison authorities as one of the escapees.
Awudu Bukari has since been handed over to the authorities at the Sekondi Central Prison. He is currently helping the security team to locate the other four jail breakers and the arms.
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