Some areas in the South East have reportedly continued to observe the sit-at-home order established by Simon Ekpa, the self-proclaimed Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic in Exile, despite his arrest in Finland.
On Thursday, November 21, 2024, Finnish authorities announced that the Nigerian-Finnish citizen was charged with inciting terrorism and promoting violence.
It was reported that Ekpa had used his social media platforms to spread separatist propaganda, incite violence and encourage illegal actions, which had caused significant disruptions in the South-East of Nigeria.
However, despite the arrest of the Biafra agitator, areas in the South-East continued to obey the weekly sit-at-home.
A woman named Ngozi Orabueze, who identified herself as the Chief of Staff to Ekpa, shared a statement on X announcing that the sit-at-home order still existed with or without the leader.
She also 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 commended the Biafra Defence Forces for their efforts to “eliminate terrorists wearing Nigerian army and police uniforms” in the South-East.
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Every monday, sit at home update 25.11.24 Biafrans continues civil disobedience sit at home across Biafraland. For illegal detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Biafra prisoners in Nigeria. Biafrans are ready to exit from Nigeria. Biafrans stand with PM Simon Ekpa. #DRIBC2024 pic.twitter.com/bCXjqvUSkw
— Kiu tv (@KizyUzoma) November 25, 2024
Sit at home continues pic.twitter.com/dYWdOpY3lh
— Ochuko/Chinedum (@gmedia_tv33007) November 25, 2024
Sit At Home Today 25th November ,2024 In Old Enugu State.
— Bryan williams (@Bryanwi15575594) November 25, 2024
Biafrans Have Spoken and will Continue to do so pic.twitter.com/p7OGe9LGGJ
25/11/2024
— POSSIBLE IHEZIRIEZI (@PIheziriezi) November 25, 2024
A call for a sit at home is not a call for war. Biafrans choose to sit at home every monday. A voluntary civil disobedience with the intention of delegitimazing Nig government in Biafra territory.
You can propagate whatever your politicians put in your mouth to say,… pic.twitter.com/eAfd9S5DDF
