Finland sentences Simon Ekpa to 6 years in prison for terrorism offences

The Päijät-Häme district court in Finland has sentenced Simon Ekpa, pro Biafra agitator, to six years in prison for terrorism offences.

The court found Ekpa guilty of inciting terrorism and participating in the activities of a terrorist group.

The court said Ekpa had used his significant social media following to stoke tensions in Nigeria’s south east region between August 2021 and November 2024.

The court also ruled that Ekpa was an influential member of a militant separatist movement whose goal was to actualise the formation of a Biafra nation from Nigeria.

The district court also noted that Ekpa had supplied certain groups with weapons, explosives, and ammunition “through his network of contacts in the region, and he was also found to have encouraged his followers on social media platform X to commit crimes in Nigeria”.