Finland accuses Nigerian separatist with terrorism

Finnish prosecutors said on Friday that they had accused a person of provoking terrorism online, identified as Nigerian separatist leader Simon Ekapa.The National Prosecution Authority of Finland said in a statement that it had “accused a Finnish person in a case of crime with terrorist intentions and a crime with a crime with a terrorist group participation in activities.,It states that the alleged crimes were committed between 2021 and 2024 in the city of Lahati and were related to suspicious efforts to establish the Nigeria region as an independent state.The prosecution authority did not name the accused, but Finnish Public Broadcaster Yale recognized him as separatist leader Simon Ekapa.EKPA – which claims to lead the Government of Biafra in exile – was detained in November.According to the prosecution authority, the accused remained in custody and denied the allegations.EKPA is known as a self-declared leader of a group of indigenous people of the IPOB, emphasizing for the independence of the southeast of Nigeria, where a bloody civil war was fought in the late 1960s. The dual Finish-Nigerian national also has been a local representative for the conservative National Alliance Party of Finland in the city, north of Helsinki, where he has served in a public transport committee.When the EKPA was arrested, Finnish officials also requested that four others be sent to custody on suspicion of funding of EKPA activities.On Friday, the prosecution authority said that the prosecutor had decided to leave the charges against four others in the case due to lack of evidence. In recent years, many facts of AFP have been the subject of investigations in recent years, which they have made in the freedom campaign about false claims and disintegration.