IPOB Factional Leader, Simon Ekpa, Arrested In Finland
IPOB Factional Leader, Simon Ekpa, Arrested In Finland

IPOB Factional Leader, Simon Ekpa, Arrested In Finland

IPOB Factional Leader, Simon Ekpa, Arrested In Finland

The leader of a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa, has been arrested in Finland.

Ekpa is linked by Nigeria’s security agencies with bloody attack on police stations, INEC offices, public facilities as well as politicians and individuals in the south east region.

Ekpa was taken into custody on Thursday 48 hours to the start of the general elections in Nigeria.

Criminal Investigator, Tommi Reen from the Central Criminal Police told the HS news outlet that the Keskusrikospoliisi (KRP), the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Finland had a police operation in a private apartment in the centre of Lahti.

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According to a Finland news outlet, HS, the police escorted the separatist out of his apartment in Lahti.

The platform claimed that they had gone to Ekpa’s residence for an interview but to their surprise, the Finland Police, KRP, answered when the HS team rang the separatist bell.

The HS said the KRP prevented their team from entering Ekpa’s apartment and said that the interview would be moved “to the future”.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama last week met with the Finnish Ambassador to Nigeria Leena Pylvanainen to discuss the threats by the factional IPOB leader.

Security and intelligence service have linked the kidnapping and murders in the South-East to speeches made by Ekpa.

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