Nigerians from all over the world are signing a petition asking the Finnish government, Nigerian government, and European Union to arrest Simon Ekpa, the person responsible for the five-day sit-at-home order that recently resulted in the deaths of numerous residents in the South-East.
According to The PUNCH, the petition calling for Ekpa’s arrest had 2,761 signatories as of the time this report was filed on Thursday.
In a widely shared video, Ekpa, a self-declared leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, commanded residents of the South-East to observe a sit-at-home protest from December 9–14, 2022. a law that has been enforced in the area with bloodshed and the destruction of people’s lives and property.
Despite the fact that IPOB, through its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, denied issuing any sit-in order on the aforementioned days, violence continued to erupt in the region.
As a result, angry Nigerians are signing a petition that demands Ekpa be detained for “terrorism and genocide.”
The petition reads, “We call on the Finnish Government, EU, The Nigerian Government to arrest Mr. Simon Ekpa, and investigate all his heinous crimes and terror activities in Eastern Nigeria.
“One Simon Ekpa (also known as Ifeanyi Njoku), a Nigerian living in Finland, and holding Finnish citizenship, has by proxies, successfully established and coordinated an armed rebel group in Eastern Nigeria whom he now wields to destroy lives, property, and businesses in Eastern Nigeria.
“He’s been seen countless times, using his media platforms in Finland to issue orders to his armed goons in Eastern Nigeria to launch deadly attacks on millions of people in the region for flouting his sit-at-home orders.
“Simon is a separatist fighting for state secession but has never been brave enough to come home and lead the war from the front in Nigeria.
“He is rather igniting and fueling terror on his ethnic group who decline his call for secession.
“Simon’s action is stirring up bloodbath – a genocide in the region, and innocent women, children, the aged and youths are the victims dying everyday.
“Sign the petition, and share it everywhere, to call on the Finnish Government, EU, The Nigerian Government to arrest Mr. Simon Ekpa, and investigate all his heinous crimes and terror activities in Eastern Nigeria.”
