Kotun Finland ta cika watan May 2025 don gudan jarumar Simon Ekpa, wanda aka yi wa lakabi da ‘Prime Minister’ na Biafra Republic Government-in-Exile, kan zargin alakar da aikata laifukan terrrorism. Ekpa, wanda shi ne dan asalin Nijeriya amma dan kasa na Finland, an kama shi tare da wasu hudu a makon da ya gabata kan zargin da suka shafi aikata laifukan terrrorism, ciki har da kura wa jama’a zuwa tashin hankali da biyan kudaden terrrorism.
An yi wa Ekpa aji a gidan yari na Kotun Päijät-Häme District Court kan zargin da suka shafi kura wa jama’a zuwa aikata laifukan da nufin terrrorism. Mai gudanarwa na babban masanin bincike, Mikko Laaksonen, ya tabbatar da ranar gudanarwar kotu ta hanyar imel, inda ya ce, “Ranar da aka cika don gabatar da tuhume-tuhume daga wajen tuhume ta kotun gunduma ta cika May 2025”.
Ekpa ya zama mashahuri ne saboda kiran sa na boycott zaben gama-gari na Nijeriya a shekarar 2023, wanda ya kai ga tashin hankali da rudani a yankin. Ayyukansa sun kuma sa yankin South-East na Nijeriya rasa kudaden da suka kai triliyan naira 4 saboda umarnin ‘sit-at-home’ da tsaro.
Jami’an tsaro na Finland sun kuma bayyana cewa Ekpa ya amfani da shafukan sada zumunta wajen kura wa jama’a zuwa tashin hankali a yankin South-East na Nijeriya, wanda ya zama daya daga cikin abubuwan da ake bincike a kansa. Wannan bincike ta kasance wani bangare na binciken da aka yi tare da hadin gwiwa na kasa da kasa, amma bayanai kan hadin gwiwar ta kasance ba a bayyana su ba.
Gwamnatin Nijeriya ta bayyana cewa za ta kallon harkokin shari’a a Finland, yayin da wakilan Ma’aikatar Harkokin Wajen Nijeriya, Kimiebi Ebienfa, ya ce da’arar Ekpa ta zama ‘muhimmin mataki don magance ayyukan IPOB da kawar da tasirin masu aiki daga waje kan tsaron kasa’.
Sanan siyasa, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, wanda ke wakiltar Abia South, ya yaba da’arar Ekpa, inda ya ce, “Da’arar Simon Ekpa ta zama maraba ne saboda hakan zai nuna wa wadanda suke kura wa jama’a zuwa tashin hankali da Simon Ekpa cewa bai yi nasara ba. Ya amfani da tashin Biafra don aikata laifukan”.
