Simon Ekpa Will Be Extradited To Nigeria To Face Charges — Defence Headquarters Says

The Nigerian Defence Headquarters, Abuja, has stated that Simon Ekpa, the self-proclaimed prime minister of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) will be extradited to the country to face charges against him.

Speaking on the arrest of Ekpa in a short press statement made available to SaharaReporters, the Director of Defence Information, Brig Gen Tukur Gusau, said the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Chris Musa, was pleased with Ekpa’s trial.

Gusau wrote: “CDS is happy with his arrest in Finland, with the hope this will be a step towards his extradition to Nigeria so that he will face justice.”

Recall that the Finland district court in Lahti had ordered the remand of Simon Ekpa on probable cause for public incitement to commit a crime with terrorist intent in Nigeria.

Ekpa was accused of using social media platforms to spread separatist propaganda linked to IPOB, a group advocating for the secession of southeastern Nigeria.

The court alleged that the offences dated back to August 23, 2021.

Finland authorities have also investigated Ekpa in the past for alleged financial crimes, including the collection of funds through questionable means.

The head of the investigation, crime commissioner Otto Hiltunen of the Central Criminal Police, stated, "The police suspect that the man has promoted his efforts from Finland with means that have led to violence against civilians and authorities as well as other crimes in the region of South-Eastern Nigeria. The man has carried out this activity, among other things, on his social media channels."

However, the remaining four suspects, accused of financing terrorism, are believed to have committed the crime in August 2022, also in Lahti.

These individuals, who are of foreign background, were born in the 1960s and 1970s.

Helsingin Sanomat (HS) reports that five suspects were arrested during the first week of the investigation, with police highlighting international cooperation during the preliminary phase.

It was previously reported that authorities suspect Simon Ekpa of being involved in the crime of collecting money unlawfully. In February 2023, Ekpa was arrested in a private apartment in Lahti.

Ekpa was later released the same evening after being questioned.

At the time, police also disclosed that they had received multiple reports about Ekpa's activities on social media. This prompted an investigation to determine whether he could be linked to other crimes.

Simon Ekpa is known in Finland as a local politician affiliated with the National Coalition Party.

He has served as a deputy councillor and represented the party on the Lahti region's public transport board.

Meanwhile, from his home in Lahti, he has used social media to call for election boycotts and support for Biafra's independence efforts.

MadamExcellency:
Aircraft carriers are leaving because the new administration is pro-peace

blackboy:
Believe fake news. Palestine should accept to live alongside a free Israel.

mrvitalis:
You are generating and sharing 1.3 trillion monthly that means federal government gets an average of 7.2 trillion yearly in revenue

But want to present a budget of 47+ trillion ?

And people are quiet about this?

So you want to borrow 40 trillion next year?
I pity who they earn in naira sha...

One dollar to ₦3500 here we come... U heard it here first

Peter Obi for the love of God step aside allow Tinubu rule for 8 years

House in lekki would be sold for 30k to 50k dollars Soon

God1000:
N47.9trn was big money before, but it's nothing under this government, our currency has truly lost its value

This is just $28billion going by the current exchange rate


I believe this money will achieve a lot if it is well utilized, but half of it will be mismanaged and embezzled

MadPolitician:
Agbadorians flame throwers testing the ground in preparation for their upcoming/doomed national conference on regionalism. Southwest APC is trying recklessly to find ways to coopt all yoruba speaking villages of the North Central into their new emerging Southwest, while working relentlessly to entrench a huge devide, between the other major ethnic groups and their sub clans. They want regionalism and Nigeria, but on their own terms. They want to be dictating the tunes, while contributing nothing other than Lagos ports revenue to the national coffers. Reveneu generated by others!

Yorubas in kwarra and Kogi should be added to the "new South west", but igbos in the Deltas and Rivers do not exist, and should be left with Dokuboh and Wike! Meanwhile a road that is more like a modern "unbiblical chord", is being built from Tinubus Lekki ports to a litany of riverine southsouth cities. A desperate attempt to tie the oil rich southsouth to the parasitic southwest. Why not develop the ports of the southsouth in Warri, Calabar, Portharcourt or Ibom? Why must someone from Calabar travel all the way to Lagos to conduct his port related businesses, when the whole of Calabar coastline is there begging and yearning for development?

How many ports in the southsouth can be developed with the trillions being wasted on tinubus road from lekki to Calabar?

Treachery at its crudest form.

MadPolitician:

Blew the miscreant out of the water straight away.

The north is well aware of South wests diabolical plans with their nebulous attempt at regionalism though. That was part of the reason for the initial protests up north. If you followed events keenly, you would have noticed that those riots happened almost immediately the southwest branch of the APC, in their perennial crude loquacious nature, started talking up the idea of lumping kwarra into the southwest. That idea is dead on arrival as far as the fulani north is concerned, and is part of the reason why a cunny tinubu is waiting for a second term before starting his dubious program on regionalism.

gidgiddy:


The constitution only recognises 774 local governments, 36 states and Abuja

Any other map is fiction

gidgiddy:


I hope you are aware that the constitution of Nigeria does not recognise anything called middle belt, North Central, South East, South South or any of the names you mentioned?

They don't exist in the eyes of the law, they are not even geopolitical zones

They are mere geographical expressions expressions