By Gideon Njoku
A Finnish Court has fixed June 2025 for the beginning of the trial of Simon Ekpa in Finland.
Ekpa, of Nigerian parentage, but a Finnish citizen, was arrested in Finland in November 2024 and clamped into detention over alleged terrorism and incitement of violence in his fatherland, Nigeria, and most especially, the South-east region where he is from.
He is, he claims, an agitator for Biafran Nation, independent of the Nigerian Nation.
However, not a few people doubt his sincerity and agenda given the unprecedented blood letting in the South-east, and the destruction of economic activities and businesses, allegedly, on his orders.
On arrest in November, Ekpa’s assets were frozen by the Finnish authorities, and he was kept in custody at one of the country’s toughest prisons – Kylmakoski Vankils.
However, reports, shared by the BBC Pigeon English, disclosed that Ekpa’s new Lawyer, Kaarle Gummerus confirmed he has received the pre-trial case file and that Ekpa would appear in Court in June.
His first
Lawyer, Ilkka Kopara, is no longer representing him, reports say.
Ekpa came into national consciousness when Nnamdi Kanu, Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, was arrested in Nairobi, Kenya, by Nigerian Authorities and renditioned to Abuja in 2021. On Kanu’s detention, Ekpa surfaced and declared himself the IPOB Leader’s disciple. He made to take over the leadership, issuing orders. But he soon fell out with the organization and worked at cross-purposes with its leadership.
He was noted for insisting on the much condemned sit-at-home order in the South-east even when IPOB had denounced it. Atimes, it lasted for days and contributed to untold hardships for the people of the zone, capped with blood-letting and violent deaths.
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