Abaribe accuses Biafran dissident, Simon Ekpa, of using sit-at-home to extort money

The Senator representing Abia-South in the National Assembly, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has accused self-styled Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE), Simon Ekpa of using the sit-at-home situation in the South-East as a way of making money.

Abaribe who made the allegations in an interview on Channels TV on Monday night, said the reason the Finland-based Biafran agitator and his cohorts are refusing to reverse the order is because they are using the order as a money making scheme and will do everything to sustain it despite calls from several Igbo leaders.

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“Of course, the man who is profiting from it, Simon Ekpa, who is far away in Finland, is using it (sit-at-home) as a money making scheme and because of that, he and his cohorts have refused to put a stop to it.

“We can now see that because they profit from this, they are not going to stop it because it has become a money-making venture.

“We have seen adverts on the internet asking people to contribute money for the liberation of Biafra,” the Senator stated.

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