Why would Tinubu’s regime announce — in 2024, with names and dates and a senior general at the microphone — that they had killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, when the man was still alive?
Two reasons. Both ugly.
One. A free win. The regime needed to look like it was winning the war. So it invented a victory. The same year they declared Boko Haram “technically defeated.” The same year the killings kept coming. Paper victories, real funerals.
Two. A gift to a partner in crime. For a terrorist, a faked death is the ultimate cover. Officially dead means he is off every sanctions list, every INTERPOL notice, every targeting database, every flagged bank account. He can move money. He can travel. He can recruit. He can hide in plain sight. The Nigerian government just handed him the most valuable currency a state can hand a jihadi.
A win for the regime. A gift for the killer. Both at the same time.
You want to know what high-level complicity with terrorists actually looks like? It looks like this.
Then Friday came. Trump killed the man Nigeria said it had already killed. And the regime panicked, scrambled, and blurted out the “two terrorists shared a name” defense — already debunked and being mocked around the world as the desperate maneuver of a tyrant whose mask is crumbling fast.
Looking forward to seeing what is left when the dust settles.
EarthShaker
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