Finnish Police Releases Simon Ekpa After Interrogation, May Be Detained On Friday
Finnish police this evening released a popular pro-Biafra separatist agitator, Simon Ekpa, hours after he was arrested and grilled.
Finnish police on Thursday evening, released the pro-Biafra separatist agitator, Simon Ekpa, hours after he was arrested and grilled.
Recall that Finnish authorities arrested Ekpa. The police escorted the separatist out of his apartment in Lahti.
Ekpa was later released this evening evening after the police allegedly arrested him for a suspected crime in Finland.
The Finnish Central Criminal Police confirmed Ekpa’s release, according to HS reports.
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.
“The person being questioned today is suspected of a crime. We will return to the title on Friday,” Tommi Reen from the Central Criminal Police told HS during a phone interview.
When contacted earlier, an official of the Finnish Embassy in Abuja who craves anonymity confirmed Ekpa’s arrest.
“It is our understanding that he is currently in police custody in Finland,” the official who is not authorised to speak to the press said.
“According 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”, the official volunteered.
Before his eventual arrest earlier today, 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.
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’s general elections billed for Saturday.
His repeated sit-at-home order has been marked by bloodshed and destruction of lives and properties in the region by its enforcers.
The Finnish Police, however, confirmed to Yleisradio that Simon Ekpa is now officially a Suspect in a crime.
Simon Ekpa will be back at the Police Station on Friday, and may be detainted.
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