Simon Ekpa, a popular pro-Biafra separatist agitator, was released by Finnish police on Thursday, hours after he was arrested and interrogated.
Prime9jaOnline previously reported that Ekpa had been arrested by Finnish authorities. The police led the separatist out of his Lahti apartment.
Ekpa was later released on Thursday evening after police in Finland allegedly arrested him for a suspected crime.
According to HS, the Finnish Central Criminal Police confirmed Ekpa's release on Thursday.
Before his eventual arrest on Thursday, Nigerians all over the world have signed a petition appealing to the Finnish government, Nigerian Government and the European Union to arrest Ekpa, the brain behind the sit-at-home order in the South-East.
Ekpa, a self-acclaimed disciple of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in had repeatedly ordered the people of the South-East to observe a sit-at-home and asked them to boycott the country’s general elections billed for Saturday.
His repeated sit-at-home order has been marked by bloodshed and destruction of lives and properties in the region by its enforcers.