Reactions have continued to trail the arrest of the self-acclaimed Prime Minister of Biafra, Simon Ekpa, with some South-East indigenes calling for his sentencing in Finland.
On Thursday last week, the Finnish authorities arrested Ekpa alongside four others and they were subsequently detained by the Päijät-Häme district court for “spreading terrorist propaganda on social media.” The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation, NBI, disclosed that Ekpa , a dual citizen of Finland and Nigeria, is suspected of public exhortation to commit offences with terrorist intent. The charges also include suspicions of financing terrorism.
reports that the armed men have been causing mayhem in the Southeast while claiming to be enforcing the Monday sit-at-home order that was first initiated by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as a measure to get the Nigerian Government to release Nnamdi Kanu. But IPOB, which suspended the sit-at-home, had severally distanced itself from Ekpa, stressing that he's not their member.
, Ambrose said those funding Ekpa's operations in the Southeast will also stop if he's held accountable in Finland. He said: 'Simon Ekpa's arrest will have an impact on the Southeast depending on how it's handled by the Finnish government. 'If the Finnish government holds Ekpa and his accomplices - those sponsoring his operations, if they hold him accountable in Finland not here in Nigeria, it will have an impact.
: 'His arrest was long overdue. About two years ago, I met the Director General of NIA and he said they were making efforts but there were no bilateral diplomatic efforts with Finland. 'I urged him to intensify their efforts because Ekpa is a criminal and a murderer, because of him a lot of people have lost their lives in the Southeast.
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