Despite Simon Ekpa’s arrest in Finland, loyalist insists on sit-at-home in South East

A loyalist of the self-confessed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa, has insisted that the weekly sit-at-home in the South-East would continue despite their principal’s arrest by security agents in Finland.

A member of the group, Ngozi Orabueze, announced this in a statement posted on the X platform on Sunday night.

Orabueze, who described herself as the Chief of Staff to Ekpa and the acting Prime Minister of the Biafran Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE), said the sit-at-home order still exists with or without the former.

She reaffirmed her support for the controversial sit-at-home order which was imposed on the South-East by Ekpa purportedly in solidarity with the detained leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.

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In a follow-up post on X, Orabueze expressed gratitude to the Finnish government for what she described as protection of Ekpa from the “terrorist Nigeria state headed by President Bola Tinubu, Christopher Musa, and Godswill Akpabio.”

“As Biafrans all over the world converge in Finland next week for the Biafra Independence Re-Declaration on December 2nd, we wish to inform Biafrans that the Monday Sit-at-home in all Biafraland, voluntarily agreed upon by all Biafrans, must be maintained,” she wrote.

She also praised the Biafra Defence Forces for their efforts to “eliminate terrorists wearing Nigeria army and police uniforms” in the South-East.

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