Finnish police on Thursday released a popular pro-Biafra separatist agitator, Simon Ekpa, hours after he was arrested and grilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recall that Finnish authorities arrested Ekpa. The police escorted the separatist out of his apartment in Lahti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ekpa was later released on Thursday evening after the police allegedly arrested him for a suspected crime in Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Finnish Central Criminal Police confirmed Ekpa\u2019s release on Thursday, according to HS reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police claimed that its operation in Lahti and the subsequent arrest of the pro-Biafra agitator were in connection with the ongoing preliminary investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe person being questioned today is suspected of a crime. We will return to the title on Friday,\u201d Tommi Reen from the Central Criminal Police told HS during a phone interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When contacted earlier, an official of the Finnish Embassy in Abuja who craves anonymity confirmed Ekpa\u2019s arrest.<\/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 stated.<\/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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