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  Following the five-day sit-at-home order that has led to the killing of many residents in the South-East recently, Nigerians all over the world are signing a petition appealing to the Finnish government, Nigerian government and the European Union to arrest Simon Ekpa, the brain behind the order. As of the time of filing this report, 2,761 people on Thursday had signed the petition seeking for Ekpa’s arrest. Ekpa, a self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, in a viral video, ordered the people of the South-East to observe a sit-at-home from December 9-14, 2022. An order that has been marked by bloodshed and destruction of lives and properties in the region by its enforcers. Although IPOB, through its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, denied ever issuing any sit-at-home order on the days mentioned above, violence had continued to reign in the region. Consequently, aggrieved Nigerians are signing the petition calling for Ekpa’s arrest for “terrorism and g...