Re: Tinubu files, Nigerians need to understand the US doesn’t work like Nigeria. With all our flaws, we do have transparency and the rule of law. Not to say it is perfect, but it’s strong.
So no, nobody paid the FBI or CIA or the judge or Trump to block the release of the files. The legal reason they are stating is valid (not saying it’s accurate, but it is plausible): Release of the files would endanger lives — likely either informant(s) or undercover agents. That’s the question on the table before the judge now.
And since that is the question, what is the answer? Whose life or lives are they afraid will be threatened if this information comes out? Seeing that we’re 33 years later, there’s zero chance it’s an undercover operative. So it’s a snitch. A rat.
And who is the one fighting the release? Tinubu himself. So it stands to reason that the way he got out of the heroin trafficking charges back in 1993 was not just forfeiting the $460k, but also ratting out others in the network.
This was a big operation, reaching into the South East Asian underworld — where people in power then are still in power now.
Not long after Tinubu left the US, the US attacked those networks. Was it based on information Tinubu provided? If so, then yes, releasing the files may well put his life in danger.
Did he turn over names of prominent Nigerians too? People who may back him now politically, unwittingly? That could prove fatal for him, too.
This is my working theory: BAT is a RAT.
#EarthShaker
Mike Arnold is a former mayor of Texas
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