Finnish police on Thursday released a popular pro-Biafra separatist agitator, Simon Ekpa, hours after he was arrested and grilled.

The PUNCH earlier reported that Finnish authorities arrested Ekpa. The police escorted the separatist out of his apartment in Lahti.

Ekpa was later released on Thursday evening after the police allegedly arrested him for a suspected crime in Finland.

The Finnish Central Criminal Police confirmed Ekpa’s release on Thursday, 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.

“It is our understanding that he is currently in police custody in Finland,” the official who is not authorised to speak to the press told The PUNCH.

“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.

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No wonder werey lay low after his release

Their Ambassador doesn't want to lose his job

He will be sentenced to death by firing squad.

Devil incarnate.

See how he looks like Kim Jong-un.

Fake as usual

Mazi Simon Ekpa

No force can stop Peter obi from becoming president.

God says it's Nigerians time.

E don humble by force
Ask Umaru Dikko
Ask Nnamdi Kanu

Isn't God a wonderful God. Ibos are now the one championing the arrest of fellow ibo separatist agitator and rejoicing at the news of his arrest So unbelievable. Same crop that protected Lamidi cownu with all his hate speech and all and even believed and champion everything said by him to the extent that they were asking the president to go for a test that he's truly a clone from Sudan and he should accept to be tested because their lord and saviour lamidi kununu said so. Today same Buhari is their messiah, ridiculous.

When the killings started in their region shortly after cownu formed esn, they will blame Buhari for using DSS and the army as the one going about killing their youth instead today the same zoo army are their friends an Buhari is their loving president while Tinubu is now the one sponsoring the killings through Simon epa a self acclaimed disciple of their lord and personal saviour cownu. Chai. This people will die in political seclusion like this fa. Naive like they are all 3 year old.

Las las after Obi lose come Saturday then Simon epa becomes their new darling again and then the new president becomes the new arch enemy sending DSS to kill them and cause unrest in their region while slap44, gidgiddy, anambralastson, princeofabakkaliki start going about with cameras to show how the region are obeying the sit at home directives from same Simon in total compliance cuz he'll become their new lord and saviour then.

Such an ethnicity

Monday sit at home on till kanu is released
Tuesday sit at home on till ekpa is released


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