Simon Ekpa, a well-known pro-Biafra separatist agitator, was freed by Finnish police on Thursday after being detained and interrogated for several hours.
Authorities in Finland detained Ekpa. The separatist was led by the police out of his Lahti dwelling.
On Thursday night, Ekpa was supposedly detained by the police in Finland for a suspected offense.
According to HS reports, the release of Ekpa was verified by the Finnish Central Criminal Police on Thursday.
The arrest of the pro-Biafra activist after the police operation in Lahti, according to the police, was related to the ongoing preliminary inquiry.
“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 stated.
“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 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.
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.
