Simon Ekpa, a Finland-based Nigerian separatist leader, and four others have been arrested in Finland on suspicion of terror-related activities.<\/p>\n
According to a local Finnish report, Ekpa, who identifies as the Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Government in Exile, was detained by the P\u00e4ij\u00e4t-H\u00e4me District Court. He faces allegations of public incitement to commit a crime with terrorist intent.<\/span><\/p>\n In a statement released on Thursday, the Central Criminal Police in Finland confirmed the arrest of five individuals over suspected terrorist crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe main suspect was arrested on suspicion of public incitement to commit a crime with terrorist intent, while four others were detained on suspicion of financing terrorist activities,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n The police noted that preliminary hearings for the suspects would take place at the P\u00e4ij\u00e4t-H\u00e4me District Court on November 21.<\/span><\/p>\n The statement further revealed that the primary suspect, a Finnish citizen of Nigerian origin born in the 1980s, allegedly used his platform to promote violence against civilians and authorities in southeastern Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n Crime Commissioner Otto Hiltunen, leading the investigation, stated that the suspect disseminated his messages primarily through social media channels.<\/span><\/p>\n The police also disclosed that four additional suspects were apprehended for allegedly financing these activities. \u201cAll five individuals were arrested earlier this week,\u201d the statement read.<\/span><\/p>\n The investigation, according to Finnish authorities, involved extensive international cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Simon Ekpa, a Finland-based Nigerian separatist leader, and four others have been arrested in Finland on suspicion of terror-related activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9578,6535,9579],"class_list":["post-21009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-finland","tag-simon-ekpa","tag-terror-related-charges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21010,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21009\/revisions\/21010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}