Finland authorities on Thursday arrested a popular pro-Biafra separatist agitator, Simon Ekpa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to a Finland news outlet, HS, the police escorted the separatist out of his apartment in Lahti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The platform claimed that they had gone to Ekpa\u2019s residence for an interview but to their surprise, the Finland police, KRP, answered when the HS team rang the separatist bell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The HS said the KRP prevented their team from entering Ekpa\u2019s apartment and said that the interview would be moved \u201cto the future\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When contacted, an official of the Finnish Embassy in Abuja who craves anonymity confirmed Ekpa\u2019s arrest to our source on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is our understanding that he is currently in police custody in Finland,\u201d the official who is not authorised to speak to the press. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAccording to information available to us, the image is verified by Helsingin Sanomat, a Finnish newspaper; in it, Ekpa is seen being escorted out of his home in Lahti by plainclothes Finnish police\u201d, the official volunteered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before his eventual arrest on Thursday, Nigerians all over the world have signed a petition appealing to the Finnish government, Nigerian Government and the European Union to arrest Ekpa, the brain behind the sit-at-home order in the South-East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ekpa, a self-acclaimed disciple of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in had repeatedly ordered the people of the South-East to observe a sit-at-home and asked them to boycott the country\u2019s general elections billed for Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His repeated sit-at-home order has been marked by bloodshed and destruction of lives and properties in the region by its enforcers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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