By Kio Amachree
Mr. President,
Two hundred and fifty million Nigerians are watching. They are watching to see if the United States of America will do the right thing — and release the long-awaited drug files and intelligence report on the man who calls himself President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
I attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. I sat in the same classrooms, taught by many of the same professors who taught Donald J. Trump. I lived in Trump Plaza. I belong to the same Penn Club as the President and Elon Musk, another distinguished graduate. And not once — not in a single lecture, not in a single seminar, not in a single lesson at that great institution — was I taught that the United States of America protects drug barons. Not once.
Pablo Escobar was hunted down and destroyed. Drug pushers are being eliminated off the coast of Venezuela as I write these words. So explain to me — explain to 250 million Nigerians — why Bola Tinubu is different.
Our family home was in McLean, Virginia, just down the road from Langley. You do not need to be a brain specialist to know that for thirty years Bola Tinubu has been an asset to the CIA and to other American intelligence organisations. That is precisely why those files have not been released. But the time for that arrangement is over. Release the files. Let the people of Nigeria know, after all these years, exactly who is ruling them.
The Epstein files have been released. They contain the names of sitting heads of state and the Who’s Who of the Western world. If no man is above the law when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, why should a man arrested in Chicago for white heroin money laundering be shielded from scrutiny? His 1993 arrest and the forfeiture of $460,000 is now public knowledge across Nigeria. His corruption is exposed. His relationship with convicted money launderer and Hezbollah financier Gilbert Chagoury — a man Switzerland convicted and who nonetheless walks away with $13 billion in no-bid Nigerian government contracts — is documented. This is not speculation. This is public record.
He is 86 years old and in failing health. He has tried to divide Nigeria along ethnic lines and in doing so has achieved the opposite — he has united every tribe, every faction, every region in shared suffering. We have no electricity. The removal of the fuel subsidy has devastated the average Nigerian. Food prices are astronomical. Nigeria should have been making billions supplying oil to replace Iranian supply disruptions — instead, our oil infrastructure is so broken under this administration that we cannot even meet existing demand. That is the catastrophic state of affairs this man has presided over.
I could be sitting on a beach in the Caribbean. I am not. I am screaming from the rooftops — Fire. Fire Fire — because someone has to. And if care is not taken, there will be a bloody revolution in Nigeria. The security situation is now out of control. Two-year-olds and five-year-olds kidnapped along with their parents. A teacher beheaded. And this so-called President tries to normalise it — as though we are discussing the weather over a cup of tea.
This man spends more time in Paris than he spends in Aso Rock. Six visits to Macron. One appearance at the United Nations General Assembly. He is seeking the protection of the French President in what appears to be an effort to insulate his long-standing ties with the Agency. Hezbollah has been driven out of southern Lebanon and has set up camps in northern Nigeria. You promised to deal with terrorists, Mr. President. When are you going to keep that promise? I am not asking for American soldiers on Nigerian soil. But they are now kidnapping two-year-olds and beheading schoolteachers.
And because he is old and unwell, his unelected son has stepped in — a young man who abuses the office of the presidency by having innocent students and nurses dragged off the streets, beaten, and thrown into jail. Freedom of speech is being strangled in what is supposed to be a democracy, by a father and son whose history on the streets of Chicago was killing Americans with narcotics.
I was a child in New York when President Kennedy was assassinated. My father was one of the most senior diplomats at the United Nations at that time. I went to school and university in the United States. My stepmother was American. My first job was on Wall Street. My friends are Americans. I know exactly how you think. And I know — with absolute certainty — that protecting the likes of Bola Tinubu goes against everything each and every one of you holds dear.
Release the files. Cut this asset loose. Nigeria is burning.
Respectfully and urgently,
Kio Amachree, President, Worldview International contributed this article Stockholm, Sweden
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