{"id":60060,"date":"2024-11-21T18:04:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ekpas-arrest-step-towards-extradition-to-nigeria-defence-chief-gen-musa\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:04:49","slug":"ekpas-arrest-step-towards-extradition-to-nigeria-defence-chief-gen-musa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ekpas-arrest-step-towards-extradition-to-nigeria-defence-chief-gen-musa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekpa\u2019s arrest step towards extradition to Nigeria \u2013 Defence Chief, Gen Musa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Gen Chris Musa, has expressed hopes that the arrest of Simon Ekpa, the self-proclaimed Prime Minister of Biafra Republic Government in Exile, is a step towards his extradition to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed in a statement by the Director of Defence Information, Brig Gen Tukur Gusau.<\/p>\n<p>The CDS hailed Ekpa\u2019s arrest by Finnish authorities, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCDS is happy with his (Ekpa) arrest in Finland, with the hope this will be a step towards his extradition to Nigeria so that he will face justice,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recall that the Finland district court in Lahti had ordered the remand of Simon Ekpa on probable cause for public incitement to commit a crime with terrorist intent in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Ekpa was accused of using social media platforms to spread separatist propaganda linked to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, a group advocating for the secession of southeastern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Ekpa\u2019s arrest step towards extradition to Nigeria \u2013 Defence Chief, Gen Musa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Gen Chris Musa, has expressed hopes that the arrest of Simon Ekpa, the self-proclaimed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26161,10485,26162,15,901,761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-chief","category-ekpa","category-gen-musa","category-news","category-nigeria","category-top-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}