The escapee was arrested by operatives of the command on Wednesday on his way home to Bama in Borno, the police boss said.
A police spokeswoman said Jude Ebube would be handed over to the Nigerian Correctional Service.
The facility was on July 5, 2022, attacked by Boko Haram terrorists who freed their cohorts and other hardened criminals in detention.
“Security officials and we the government are who the people rely on to protect them, and we have failed in doing so.”
The suspect, 60-year-old Shuaibu, was apprehended by police operatives at a location in Kaduna, while on transit to his home state of Kano.
The president’s spokesman said that though “insecurity is from the bottom of hell, fiendish, Luciferous,” however, it was not peculiar to Nigeria.
The suspect, Kamala Lawal, aged 33, was arrested in Katsina with dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.
The NSCDC says that released terrorists from the Kuje jailbreak were hibernating in targeted FCT communities, and re-strategising for further attacks.
Besides political opposition and civil society groups who criticised Mr Buhari’s directive as overly distasteful and self-serving, violent outlaws also took note of the president’s pardon
The 33 inmates were said to have cases relating to terrorist attacks.
