Authorities in Finland detained Simon Ekpa, a well-known pro-Biafra separatist agitator, on Thursday.
A Finnish news source, HS, said that the police led the separatist from his Lahti apartment.
According to the platform, they went to Ekpa's house to interview him, but when they rang the separatist ring, the Finland police, KRP, answered, shocking them.
The HS said that the KRP told them to transfer the interview "to the future" and forbade their team from accessing Ekpa's flat.
Ekpa's detention was verified to The PUNCH on Thursday by a Finnish Embassy employee in Abuja who asked to remain anonymous.
According to the official, who was not given permission to speak to the press, "he is presently in police custody in Finland."
The official volunteered, "According to information accessible to us, the image is validated by a Finnish newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat; in it, Ekpa is seen being escorted out of his residence in Lahti by plainclothes Finnish police."
Nigerians from all over the world signed a petition urging the Finnish government, the Nigerian government, and the European Union to arrest Ekpa, the man responsible for the South-East sit-at-home order, before his eventual arrest on Thursday.
Ekpa, a self-described follower of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu, had repeatedly urged residents of the region's South-East to undertake a sit-at-home protest and abstain from the country's scheduled general elections on Saturday.
His repeated orders to stay at home have been accompanied by carnage and the devastation of local people's lives and property by those who carry them out.
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