Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has encouraged the Federal Government to move forward with its intention to arrest Simon Ekpa in Finland.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, with the 2023 general elections less than ten days away, tensions are rising in the South-East as a result of Ekpa’s brag that no election will be held in the zone.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s self-proclaimed disciple had pledged to inflict mayhem on everyone who dared to vote on election day.
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Despite IPOB’s claim, via its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, that the civil action has been postponed, the same Ekpa’s Autopilot group has maintained the Monday sit-at-home order in several portions of the South-East.
Concerned by Ekpa’s recent warning, the Federal Government of Nigeria was said to have met with the ambassador of Finland to Nigeria, Leena Pylvanainen, as it finds measures to stop additional carnage in the South-East region.
At the meeting with Pylvanainen, Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, who was represented by Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zubairu Dada, was said to have expressed his displeasure with Ekpa’s orders to his horde of followers, who then carried out killings, maiming, burning, and other destructive activities.
The Nigerian government stated that Ekpa’s actions were quickly becoming a threat to the upcoming 2023 election, and that the FG would not take him and the Finnish administrations lightly if something dramatic was not done.
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The Nigerian military had previously stated that it would not allow anyone to cancel the 2023 elections.
While applauding the new effort by the Nigerian government, Ohanaeze Secretary-General Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro stated that immediate action was required to prevent Ekpa from carrying out his threats.
He stated in a statement made available to Newsmen, Thursday, that “one Simon Ifeanyi Njoku Ekpa has by his comments and acts reached the height of a worldwide terrorist and sponsor of terrorism in Nigeria and notably in the South-East.
“Simon Ekpa is liable for the violence, killing of Igbos and Nigerians in the Eastern part of the country and should be arraigned by the Finnish Government and the Nigerian government without further delay before he escapes from Finland.”
Isiguzoro while declaring that Ekpa’s case had gone beyond dialogue, noted that “Ndigbo have assembled all documents to prove that Simon Ekpa is sponsoring the killing of the Igbo and other Nigerians, especially the security agents, burning of public properties (INEC and court buildings), as well as disruption of economic and social activities in the South-East for the last six months.”
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He emphasised that Ndigbo would work with other Nigerians to apprehend and give over to security agencies those enforcing the Ekpa’s sit-in from the 23rd to the 28th of February 2023 in an attempt to disrupt the 2023 Presidential elections, which are scheduled to take place on February 25.
“Elections must be held in the South-East as Simon Ekpa is working with Igbo adversaries to suppress Igbo votes.
“This must be resisted; local vigilantes and community-based security outfits should join hands in the efforts to stamp out terrorism and banditry in the South-East,” he declared.
The Ohanaeze scribe urged the Federal Government “to mount fierce pressure on the Finnish Government to surrender Simon Ekpa to face prosecution in Nigeria.
“Finnish authorities should stop from shielding a global terrorist who is responsible for the killing over of 2000 Nigerians in the South-East.
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“In our commitment to ensure that Ekpa is arrested, the $50,000 bounty on him has been increased to 100,000 dollars for anyone in Finland and Europe who has useful information on his new location.”
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