{"id":62600,"date":"2023-02-24T09:51:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T09:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=62600"},"modified":"2023-02-24T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T09:51:54","slug":"after-hours-of-questioning-finnish-police-release-ipob-man-ekpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=62600","title":{"rendered":"After hours of questioning, Finnish police release IPOB man, Ekpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Finnish Central Criminal Police has confirmed that it has released pro-Biafra separatist agitator, Simon Ekpa, after questioning for hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) apologist accused of inciting unknown persons to violence in the south-eastern flank of the country was arrested on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The police on Thursday claimed Ekpa\u2019s arrest was in connection with the ongoing preliminary investigation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62581\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62581\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot_20230223-1617282-300x278.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot_20230223-1617282-300x278.png 300w, https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot_20230223-1617282.png 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simon Ekpa (3rd left) sandwiched between security men<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe person being questioned today is suspected of a crime. We will return to the title on Friday,\u201d Tommi Reen from the Central Criminal Police told HS during a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Ekpa had been arrested by the police in his residence in the Lahti area of the country, a Finnish paper Helsingin Sanomat reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The separatist has repeatedly declared that there will be no elections in the South-East region of the country and insisted on the observance of a sit-at-home every Monday in the area to protest the detention of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu.<\/p>\n<p>IPOB has disowned the Finland-based Ekpa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Finnish Central Criminal Police has confirmed that it has released pro-Biafra separatist agitator, Simon Ekpa, after questioning for hours. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) apologist accused of inciting unknown persons to violence in the south-eastern flank of the country was arrested on Thursday. The police on Thursday claimed Ekpa\u2019s arrest was in connection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":62579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5590,5591,1124],"class_list":["post-62600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ekpa","tag-finland","tag-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}