AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION
“Critics have noted that it would appear President Tinubu has handed the country over to terrorists and criminal gangs while remaining solely focused on second-term politics. Violent conflicts across Nigeria claimed 4,654 lives in 2025”
From: Kio Amachree, President — Worldview International, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: June 3, 2026
Re: The Protection of Bola Ahmed Tinubu — A Reckoning That Can No Longer Be Deferred
To the Directors of the FBI and the DEA,
The game is up.
Not because a journalist filed a FOIA request. Not because a federal judge in Washington ordered you to produce records you have spent three years burying. Not because the evidence has grown too vast and too damning for even your most creative legal obstructions to contain. The game is up because the people of Nigeria — 220 million of them — have reached their own verdict. And they are asking the question that your agencies have worked tirelessly, and at great institutional cost, to prevent them from asking:
Why did the rest of the ring go to prison, and this man walked free?
It is a simple question. It deserves a simple answer. An honest answer would begin with one word: asset.
I. THE MAN YOU ARE PROTECTING IS NOT WHO HE CLAIMS TO BE
The secondary school he claims to have attended did not exist. The university transcript used to gain admission to Chicago State University belongs to a female — the social security number linked to it traces to a woman from Virginia. The CSU registrar confirmed he had never personally met Bola Tinubu, who had never visited the campus and made no financial contributions to it.
His name is not his name. His age is not his age. His mother was not the woman he publicly called his mother. By most credible independent assessments, the man sitting in Aso Rock today is approximately 86 years old — not the age on his fraudulently filed documents. He has built his entire political existence on a scaffolding of fabricated identity, and your agencies have been the architects of the silence that let it stand.
The forfeiture of funds from his bank accounts was the outcome of an investigation that linked over $2 million across those accounts to proceeds from the heroin trafficking of Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele — Chicago drug kingpins operating across Illinois and Indiana.  The DEA became involved in the investigation of a white heroin network operating in Chicago and Hammond, Indiana, as early as 1988. Cocaine, heroin, guns, and paraphernalia used for running the cartel were recovered.  The source of the white heroin, Lee Andrew Edwards, was incarcerated for attempting to murder a federal agent. Akande and Agbele faced the full weight of American justice.
Tinubu walked.
Records from 1993 reveal that Tinubu agreed to forfeit assets to U.S. authorities in what amounted to a plea arrangement, sidestepping a potential trial on drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
Only an asset walks in and out of the United States after being busted for heroin. Only an asset has three federal agencies — the CIA, FBI, and DEA — jointly file legal memoranda for three years to prevent a sitting foreign president’s drug trafficking investigation records from being disclosed to his own people. The DEA itself stated, in writing, 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.
That sentence will define your agencies’ legacy in Africa for a generation. Read it again slowly. You wrote that. You filed that. You meant it.
II. WHILE YOU PROTECT HIM, NIGERIA IS BURNING
Let us speak plainly about the consequences of your protection.
Between January and April 2026 alone, at least 1,100 people were kidnapped across Nigeria. Schools are empty because parents are afraid to send their children out.  On May 15, 2026, armed terrorists invaded Baptist Nursery and Primary School, Community Grammar School, and L.A. Primary School in Oyo State — deep in the South-West, territories considered inviolable a decade ago — abducting pupils, students, and staff.  A school principal appeared on video, visibly distressed, begging the government to negotiate with the Boko Haram terrorists holding her and her colleagues.
These are not statistics. These are children. Teachers. Families.
As schools shut down and teachers protested in the streets, President Tinubu’s response was to urge Nigerians to pray for the bandits to repent.
Critics have noted that it would appear President Tinubu has handed the country over to terrorists and criminal gangs while remaining solely focused on second-term politics.  Violent conflicts across Nigeria claimed 4,654 lives in 2025. Some 4,722 people were kidnapped in a single twelve-month period, with over 2.5 billion naira paid in ransoms.
Terrorists are moving south. They have breached the South-West. They are taking children from classrooms and beheading teachers. And the man you protected — the man you kept in power through institutional silence — is focused entirely on one thing: remaining in power.
This is the asset you chose. This is your investment. How is it performing?
III. THE CHAGOURY QUESTION
Your silence on Bola Tinubu cannot be separated from the question of who benefits from his presidency. The beneficiary who demands your attention most urgently is the Chagoury network.
Gilbert Chagoury was convicted in Switzerland of money laundering. He was placed in the U.S. terrorism screening database for his connections to Hezbollah. He entered a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the United States Department of Justice. He is banned from entering the United States.
And yet: the Tinubu administration has awarded him and his associates contracts totalling in excess of $13 billion — including the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, the Apapa and Tin Can Island ports, and the Snake Island development. His son Ronald Chagoury Jr. operates a BVI offshore company with the President’s own son, Seyi Tinubu, who simultaneously holds a board seat at a major state-linked enterprise.
You have a man on your terrorism screening database receiving multi-billion dollar contracts from the government of Africa’s most populous nation. You have the son of a CIA asset in a joint offshore corporate structure with the son of a convicted Hezbollah-linked money launderer.
And your agencies are filing court papers to keep the public in the dark.
Is this the Africa policy of the United States of America?
IV. THE RECKONING
Judge Beryl Howell has ordered the FBI and DEA to lift their Glomar responses. The court acknowledged that Tinubu was a subject of joint FBI and DEA investigations concerning money laundering linked to a heroin trafficking organisation in Chicago, and ordered the agencies to release relevant records.  That clock is ticking.
But this letter is not about the court order. It is about something larger.
The people of Nigeria are not naive. They have done the arithmetic. They know that when every other member of a drug ring is prosecuted and imprisoned, and one man — the man whose bank accounts held over $2 million in narcotics proceeds — is allowed to walk away, forfeit a fraction of the sum, and proceed to become a senator, a governor, and a president, there is a reason. They know that reason now has a name.
History will record whether the FBI and DEA chose, at this late hour, to stand on the right side of it.
The 220 million people of Nigeria are watching. The international press is watching. The UN Special Rapporteurs to whom formal submissions have been made are watching. The UK Serious Fraud Office, the National Crime Agency, INTERPOL, OFAC, and FinCEN are all in receipt of formal intelligence packages documenting what your protection has enabled.
You have been shielding a man of fabricated identity, forged credentials, and documented narcotics ties — a man whose administration has presided over the kidnapping of schoolchildren, the southward march of jihadist terror, and the award of billions in public contracts to a figure on your own terrorism screening list.
This is not the kind of asset that a great nation should wish to carry. The liability has long since eclipsed any conceivable intelligence return.
Release the records. Let Nigeria judge.
The history of your agencies will be written either as institutions that, when faced with a moment of moral reckoning, chose transparency and the rule of law — or as institutions that protected a man whose rule has cost thousands of African lives, to shield an asset relationship that served no one but itself.
Choose carefully. The world is no longer looking away.
Kio Amachree
President, Worldview International
Stockholm, Sweden
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