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Finnish prosecutors on Friday said they had charged a man with inciting terrorism 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.

The prosecution authority did not name the accused but Finnish public broadcaster YLE identified him as separatist leader Simon Ekpa.

Ekpa — who claims to lead the Biafra Republic’s government in exile — was detained in November.

According to the prosecution authority, the accused remained in custody and denied the charges.

Ekpa is known as a self-proclaimed leader of a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which is pushing for the independence of Nigeria’s southeast, where a bloody civil war was fought in the late 1960s.

The dual Finnish-Nigerian national has also been a local representative for Finland’s conservative National Coalition Party in the city of Lahti, north of Helsinki, where he has served on a public transport committee.

When Ekpa was arrested, Finnish authorities also requested that four other people be remanded in custody on suspicion of financing Ekpa’s activities.

On Friday, the prosecution authority said the prosecutor had decided to drop charges against four others in the case due to a lack of evidence.

Ekpa has been the subject of several of AFP’s fact checks in recent years over false claims and disinformation he has made in independence campaigning.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/05/finland-charges-simon-ekpa-with-inciting-terrorism/amp/

Gidgiddy
Ekpa has been charged

Good. If he can't be extradited to Nigeria for prosecution, he should be prosecuted over there in Finland. You can't be inciting violence from thousands of miles away and expect to get away with it

He is not going to serve a long term if convicted. Probably a first time offender, he will get a slap on the wrist.
Please send him to his domain in Nigeria. After all, he is the Prime Minister of Biafra.

Na dem Dey call others coward but na dem go first japa when kasala burst.

Imagine a whole prime minister calling himself content creator

Nigeria should learn good standards and practices from the West and stop disgracing us. Adeyinka Grandson charged, prosecuted and jailed quickly for hate speech the UK.

Ekpa too now charged quickly in Finland and surely to be found guilty and jailed.

Meanwhile there is a media circus around Kanu for years now, when he is a thousand time worse than the two above with countless blood of the innocent on his hand.

Is it that Nigeria and Nigerians have no shame at all considering the judiciary, with thousands of evidence to jail Kanu for life, continues the disgraceful charade all Nigerians have the misfortune of being associated with while Kanu's people, continue to insist on his innocence?

Now that Ekpa is formally charged, I dare Kanu's ers to attend his hearing in Finland and cause a nuisance as they have been doing in Nigeria. Let us see if they will not be jailed foe public disorder and contempt of court asap.

Where is that Gidgiddy sef? Lol.

Sharpsharp00123:
Na dem Dey call others coward but na dem go first japa when kasala burst.

Imagine a whole prime minister calling himself content creator

Very funny, no rebuttal yet from Gidgiddy?

Great stuff.

All I'm waiting for is the arrival of this man home.

Let him come home and enjoy the outcomes of his services all these years.

Afterall, north, south, east or west, home na the best.

Now watch how all the APC frauds, 'one Nigerianists' and unity beggars will full here to talk about Simon Ekpa, as if they care about Nigeria

If this thread had been about armed bandits killing 50 people in Southern Kaduna, none of them would even anything about terrorism to comment here

dominique:
Good. If he can't be extradited to Nigeria for prosecution, he should be prosecuted over there in Finland. You can't be inciting violence from thousands of miles away and expect to get away with it

He will be prosecuted and jailed there as happened yo Adeyinka Grandson. After that his life is downhill because he will have a criminal record making it harder for him to live and thrive in Finland.

We hear he was conscripted into the Finnish armed forces. Well, he will be dishonoursbly discharged if still serving.

When we tell some people that the West is not Nigeria they take for a joke, they insult you.

Shebi Ekpa was forming superman, while his kinsmen stood solidly behind him. Well, let them start donating money for him to relocate to Nigerian after serving his time.in Finland because he is done over there now. Totally fcked.

As I always warn those people, "act in haste, repent at leisure". I am sure Ekpa now has enough free time on his hand to fully realize the folly of his ways and past actions.

gidgiddy:
Now watch how all the APC frauds, one Nigerianists and unity beggars will full here to talk about Simon Ekpa as if the care about Nigeria

If this thread had been armed bandits killing 50, none of them would even anything about terrorism to comment

Oga, forget the laughing emojis. You are in severe pain and every Nairalander knows that. Another one of your "innocent" kinsmen, you insisted is a saint, now bites the dust.. Lol

Ekpa will be found guilty unless...

Gidgiddy next.

That guy is a terrorist.

Very good.

ElSudani:
He is not going to serve a long term if convicted. Probably a first time offender, he will get a slap on the wrist.
Please send him to his domain in Nigeria. After all, he is the Prime Minister of Biafra.

How much time will he serve if convicted?

Pm Wotowoto dey collect wotowoto 😹

Hmmm

Finland jail be like 5 star Lekki Hotel
He will be alright

Fake news

Cha E

Good.

Giddygiddy would tell us Finland doesn't know anything.

Extradite him to Nigeria already! 🙄

He should come back and dance to the music he's been playing from afar.

WizardOfNG:


Oga, forget the laughing emojis. You are in severe pain and every Nairalander knows that. Another one of your "innocent" kinsmen, you insisted is a saint, now bites the dust.. Lol

So are the over 200 people killed in Benue, Plateau and Zamfara in the last two months you people don't or care about, but Simon Ekpa in far away Finland

i will love agulu fraud to comment on this,

Extradite the batty bwoy.. we nuh inna long talking.

Him haffi com him breda in Kuje prison prison

Content Creator

gidgiddy:
Now watch how all the APC frauds, 'one Nigerianists' and unity beggars will full here to talk about Simon Ekpa, as if they care about Nigeria

If this thread had been armed bandits killing 50 in Southern Kaduna, none of them would even anything about terrorism to comment here

Stop crying

He thought he was invisible...... 😁🤣😂💭