In a country where its president was rated as the third most corrupt person in the world in 2024, it must be a very pleasing development for patriotic Nigerians, wherever they may be, to know that some of their leaders think of future generations—not themselves or the next election.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been alleged to do anything, including selling his country to its enemies, as long as doing so would earn him some money in the process. He is claimed to be an agent for some of the famous and infamous agencies in the US. He is also alleged to have sold a part of Nigeria to the French for billions of dollars, which he secretly pocketed, with few people being aware of the dirty deal.
The Nigerian leader was declared by the global anti-corruption body, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), as the third most corrupt person in the world. It is definitely not the kind of backhanded compliment that a nation can grin and bear while going about its daily business unperturbed.
A previous article written by yours sincerely discussed how the president was also exposed as an agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The indirect admission at a US court by the CIA was supported by the FBI and the DEA, both of which agreed that “Nigerians have no right to unfiltered access to President Bola Tinubu’s past records.”
Mr. David Hundeyin, a US-based Nigerian journalist of high standing, said that the three US agencies had filed their defense against the summary judgment concerning President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s drug trafficking investigation records.
He wrote on his X handle:
“Yesterday (Monday), in the US federal court for the District of Columbia, the CIA, FBI, and DEA filed a memorandum opposing our motion for summary judgment in the FOIA disclosure case about President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s drug trafficking investigation records, where we are seeking to have the redactions removed from the (partially released) files.
“In the filing, the CIA effectively confirmed that Nigeria’s sitting president is an active CIA asset.”
An excerpt from the CIA filing reads:
“Human sources can be expected to furnish information to the CIA only when they are confident the CIA can and will do everything in its power to prevent the public disclosure of their cooperation. In the case of a person who has been cooperating with the CIA, official confirmation of that cooperation could cause the targets to take retaliatory action against that person or against their family or friends.
“It also places in jeopardy every individual with whom the cooperating individual has had contact. Thus, the indiscretion of one source in a chain of intelligence sources can damage an entire spectrum of sources.
“As such, confirming or denying the existence of records on a particular foreign national, like Tinubu, could reasonably be expected to cause damage to U.S. national security by indicating whether or not the CIA maintained any human intelligence sources related to Tinubu and identifying any access or lack of access any such sources had to intelligence concerning him.”
As if that was not bad enough, the DEA’s filing included a paragraph that literally said:
“We oppose full, unredacted disclosure of the DEA’s Bola Tinubu heroin trafficking investigation records because we believe that while Nigerians have a right to be informed about what their government is up to, they do not have a right to know what their president is up to.”
At this point, I think there is nothing more to be said about the direct role that the US government plays in ensuring that Africa is constantly destabilized and afflicted with terrible leaders who create poverty and devastation.
However, the present Governor of Ebonyi State, Rt. Honourable Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, has not busied himself with dipping his hands into the public till. He told a stunned gathering of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) that all his children attend schools in the Southeast of Nigeria—not some expensive fancy foreign schools like some of his commissioners, who prefer to make other countries very rich at the expense of their own.
According to the governor:
“I am the only Governor in Nigeria presently whose children are all schooling in the country, and not even beyond Southeast! Three are in Ebonyi, and two are in Enugu. Their biggest school fee is N35,000. When I told them in the Nigerian Governors Forum, all were surprised and felt sober.
“Some Commissioners in my government have schools they are paying over N2 million per term for their children, but I can’t imagine myself paying such an amount that’s more than N5 million per term for my children. Where will I get the money to continue paying for their school fees after my temporary tenure as a Governor?
“I don’t want to develop blood pressure during the time I should be resting. We must join hands together and reposition the educational system in the country such that we can address the gaps that make these big men always send their children abroad for studies—and I must make sure it starts from Ebonyi State.”
While most governors, top government officials, and top politicians are busy corruptly enriching themselves from the people’s Commonwealth and other devilish practices, there are a few politicians who fear God and the day they would have to account for all they did while alive.
In fact, the Ebonyi State governor deserves to be celebrated—not only by all patriotic Nigerians but by the entire corruption-free global community.
Labaran wrote from Katsina.
