18/05/2025
Finland Charges Simon Ekpa With Inciting Terror!sm
Finnish prosecutors on Friday said they had charged a man with inciting terror!sm online who a media report identified as Nigerian separatist leader Simon Ekpa.
Finland’s National Prosecution Authority said in a statement that it had charged “a Finnish individual in a case involving suspected public incitement to commit crimes with terrorist intent and participation in the activities of a terrorist group.”
It added that the alleged crimes had been committed in the city of Lahti between 2021 and 2024 and were related to the suspect’s efforts to establish Nigeria’s Biafra region as an independent state.
Ekpa — who claims to lead the Biafra Republic’s government in exile — was detained in November.
Ekpa is known as the self-proclaimed leader of a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra (lPOB) that is pushing for the independence of Nigeria’s southeast. The area was the centre of a brutal civil war in the late 1960s following a failed attempt to establish the Republic of Biafra.
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The Finnish police say Simon Ekpa will remain in custody until his trial. Finnish legal system does not permit his bail due to the nature of the offence he is being held for. He is accused of instigating vi+lence and inciting t£rror, and financing t€rrorism, in the south-east region of Nigeria, targeting civilians and authorities, mostly through his social media pages.
Simon Ekpa, is being held at the Kylmäkoski vankila (Kylmäkoski prison), one of the world’s toughest prisons. The high security prison is in Vanhamaantie, Akaa, Finland, on charges of public incitement to commit crimes with terrorist intent.
Finnish authorities have frozen the assets of Simon Ekpa, a self-proclaimed Biafran agitator accused of terror!sm-related activities. The government also seized assets linked to companies associated with Ekpa.
Finnish police confirmed that Ekpa, described as the self-proclaimed Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Governme