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BLOOD MONEY AND BROKEN OATHS: HOW NIGERIA’S RULING CLASS FEEDS THE TERROR IT PRETENDS TO FIGHT

The Children Are Still in the Forest. The Politicians Are at the Party. And Someone in Abuja Is Being Paid to Keep It That Way.

By Kio Amachree | President, Worldview International

Investigative Commentary — Stockholm, Sweden
Published via Vanguard, Sahara Reporters & Starconnect Media

STOCKHOLM / ABUJA — I write this from Stockholm — from a country where the rule of law is not an aspiration but an expectation; where no politician is above accountability; where a child sitting in a classroom has the full protection of the state behind them. I write from here deliberately. Because what I am about to say cannot safely be said from Lagos or Abuja, where journalists are harassed, editors are pressured, and truth-tellers are made to disappear. Distance is not cowardice. Distance is what allows me to say plainly what the Nigerian press is intimidated into dressing in diplomatic language.

So let us begin with what needs to be said without decoration.

Nigeria’s children are being kidnapped in industrial quantities. The kidnappers are known by name and address to the very government sworn to stop them. Billions of naira in ransom have been paid — some of it, intelligence sources confirm, by the state itself — rearming and emboldening the same men for the next raid. And at the apex of this catastrophe sits a president so politically entangled in the networks that sustain this horror that he is constitutionally, morally, and practically incapable of fighting it.

This is not analysis. This is a criminal indictment hiding in plain sight.

THE NUMBERS DO NOT LIE — THEY ACCUSE

Between May 2023 and April 2024, Nigeria’s own National Bureau of Statistics confirmed that ₦2.2 trillion was paid to kidnappers in ransom — and that 2,235,954 Nigerian citizens were kidnapped across communities during that period.  Nearly one percent of the entire national population. Taken. In a single year.

Between July 2024 and June 2025, kidnappers demanded a staggering ₦48 billion in ransoms. ₦2.57 billion was confirmed paid — a 144 percent year-on-year increase in actual ransom payments. During that same period, 762 people were killed — meaning nearly one victim died for every reported kidnapping incident. 

Since Tinubu assumed the presidency, at least 551 students and school staff have been abducted in nine mass incidents — a 401 percent increase over the first three years of his predecessor’s administration.  No school kidnapping incidents were recorded in the first three years of Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency. 

These are not statistics. They are Nigerian children — five-year-olds dragged from their beds at midnight, teenagers bound and marched at gunpoint into forests, teachers executed for sport and left in the dirt as messages. The government calls the killers “bandits” to minimise the horror. I call them what they are: a protected, state-tolerated terror infrastructure operating with the confidence of men who know they will not be truly hunted.

And from Stockholm, with the full weight of thirty years of diaspora observation behind me, I say this: the Nigerian state is not losing the war on terror. It is managing it.

THE PARTY WHILE THE CHILDREN SCREAM

On the morning of November 18, 2025, armed men stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, tore 25 girls from their dormitory, shot the vice principal dead, and vanished into the bush before any security response arrived.  Three days later, 303 students and 12 teachers were snatched from St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary School in Niger State — among them nursery pupils as young as five years old. 

Within hours of the Kebbi abduction, Vice President Kashim Shettima boarded a flight to Lokoja, Kogi State — not to coordinate rescue operations, not to be at the scene of national emergency, but to attend a political rally welcoming defectors into the ruling party. 

The Vice President of Nigeria attended a party. While 25 girls were in terrorist hands. While a dead vice principal’s family received his body.

This is the Tinubu administration’s authentic face, stripped of the press releases and the staged condemnation statements. This is who they are.

And then, in May 2026, it got worse. Bandits invaded Oyo State — the south, the heartland, territory that was once beyond the geographic reach of the northern terror networks. They attacked three schools in Esiele community simultaneously: Community Grammar School, Baptist Nursery and Primary School, and L.A. Primary School. They took children and teachers. They killed a teacher in cold blood. The spread of terrorist kidnapping into southern Nigeria marks a catastrophic new frontier in the security collapse. 

Tinubu issued a statement. Called it “barbaric.”

The word “barbaric” from Bola Tinubu is worth exactly nothing. His government created the conditions for it. His political alliances protect the men behind it. His statement is an insult to every grieving parent.

GUMI’S EXPLOSIVE CONFESSION: THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS EVERY KILLER BY NAME

In March 2026, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi — the Islamic cleric who has served as the Nigerian government’s unofficial backchannel to armed bandit groups, travelling with police escorts, military officers, and intelligence personnel to bandit camps — made a public statement that should have triggered a parliamentary emergency, an international investigation, and criminal proceedings against named officials.

“The Federal Government knows every terrorist by name and location. I do not go alone to negotiate with the terrorists — I go with police, military, and other security agencies,” Gumi stated on the record. 

Read that sentence until its meaning is fully understood. Nigeria’s armed forces, its police, its intelligence services — they sit across tables from mass kidnappers. They note the names. They record the locations. They leave. And the children remain in the forest.

One social media commentator captured the public reaction precisely: “Northern elites and government know everything about bandits’ operations. They know — reason they do nothing when they strike. My people are in trouble.” Another wrote: “This is a state capture. Nigeria is no longer serving the people — it is serving a few powerful interests behind the scenes.” 

This is not speculation from the diaspora. This is Nigerians in Nigeria, in public, saying what they know. The government is not failing to find the terrorists. The government is choosing not to destroy them.

Policy analysts at Nextier formally warned that “each successful ransom payment signals that kidnapping is profitable and low-risk,” describing the cycle as equivalent to advertising — a self-sustaining feedback loop that accelerates state collapse and transforms insecurity into permanent industry. 

The industry is permanent because it is permitted. It is permitted because it is profitable. The question that must be answered under oath, before an international tribunal, is: profitable for whom?

THE BORNO GOVERNOR’S LODGE: THE SMOKING GUN THEY BURIED

There is a case that should have ended two political careers and triggered a national reckoning. Instead, it was quietly processed through the courts, stripped of its political implications, and buried. I am digging it up.

On January 14, 2012, Kabiru Umar Sokoto — the convicted mastermind of the Christmas Day 2011 bombing of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla, which killed approximately 35 worshippers — was arrested at the Borno State Governor’s Lodge in Asokoro, Abuja. He was arrested alongside a serving military officer. 

The man who bombed a church on Christmas morning. Found inside the official Abuja residence of a sitting Nigerian governor. In the company of a man in uniform.

That governor was Kashim Shettima. The current Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Sokoto escaped from police custody during transport and was re-arrested a month later in Taraba State.  He was eventually convicted and sentenced. But the serving military officer arrested beside him — his identity, his rank, his unit, his commanding officer, his contacts in Abuja — was never made the subject of public accountability. The security memo documenting the incident was buried in classified files for a decade before it surfaced. No public inquiry was ever called.

Shettima was also the governor of Borno State in April 2014 when Boko Haram abducted 276 mostly Christian schoolgirls from Chibok — and he was reported to have failed to brief then-President Jonathan for 19 days after the abduction. 

A Boko Haram kingpin arrested in his official residence. The Chibok girls taken on his watch without prompt notification to the Presidency. The Vice Presidency of Nigeria as his reward.

If these facts existed about a European or American official, they would be in front of a parliamentary committee within days. In Nigeria, they became a footnote — and the man became Vice President.

THE POLITICAL ARCHITECTURE OF MANUFACTURED TERROR

The historical record, examined honestly and without tribal sentiment, is damning.

Tinubu spent years publicly attacking Goodluck Jonathan as criminally weak on terrorism — stoking the narrative that destroyed Jonathan’s presidency and delivered power to the current ruling coalition. Yet the record shows that it was Jonathan’s forces that actually repossessed 14 Local Government Areas from Boko Haram before Buhari ever took office.  The anti-Jonathan terrorism narrative was, in significant measure, manufactured propaganda — engineered to drive a regime change that served specific political interests.

In 2013, Tinubu himself publicly advocated amnesty for Boko Haram members  — at the precise moment those members were at their most lethal, and precisely when amnesty would have legitimised their insurgency and handed them political breathing space.

Tinubu once described his future coalition partner in a 2003 US diplomatic cable as an “ethnocentric agent of destabilisation who would strain Nigeria’s unity if he became president.”  Within a decade, he had made that same man his indispensable vehicle to power — and used the chaos that man’s governance enabled to position himself for the presidency. The question every serious intelligence analyst must ask is not whether this was cynical. The question is how deep the arrangement went.

Military analysts now speak openly of a dangerous collapse of Nigeria’s defence architecture, coupled with a worrying interrelationship between terrorists and elements within the military establishment.  Captured bandits, according to multiple security sources and years of consistent reporting, routinely implicate powerful men in Abuja when interrogated. Files are opened. Names are recorded. Nothing happens. The powerful men continue attending state dinners.

After the Kebbi abduction in November 2025, Kebbi’s own governor publicly disclosed that credible prior intelligence of the planned school attack had been provided by security services — and ignored. He called it sabotage. He accused an unnamed security agency of enabling the kidnapping through deliberate inaction. 

Sabotage. By Nigeria’s own security apparatus. To enable the kidnapping of schoolgirls. While the Vice President flew to a party.

THE RANSOM ECONOMY: WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?

Nigeria’s kidnapping industry has consolidated into a structured market with clear pricing, specialised roles, and regional supply chains. Verified data shows that one-third of all documented ransom proceeds flow directly to Islamist terrorist organisations. 

In Katsina State, authorities paid ₦30 million naira for the release of 340 schoolchildren — and the bandit commander who masterminded the kidnapping personally confirmed the payment in a leaked audio recording. 

A former state governor with access to classified security intelligence alleged publicly that the Tinubu government has been paying bandits billions of naira in ransom payments — claims Abuja denied but never credibly refuted. 

These payments do not dissolve. They become weapons. They become motorcycles and satellite phones and intelligence about military patrol routes. They become the operational budget for the next school raid. And somewhere along this chain — between the forest camp and the Abuja official who approves the transfer — some portion of this money cycles back into the political economy that keeps Nigeria’s terror ecosystem functional and its protectors untouchable.

From Stockholm I say this with absolute clarity: an independent forensic audit of every ransom transaction since 2015, conducted by international investigators with no Nigerian government interference, would lead to names that appear on the letterheads of Nigeria’s most powerful institutions.

AMERICA FINALLY ACTS — EXPOSING NIGERIA’S DECADE OF PRETENCE

In May 2026, a development occurred that inadvertently laid bare the full dimensions of Tinubu’s security failure. On May 16, 2026, the United States and Nigeria began a joint military operation against ISWAP and Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria. The operation included special forces raids and multiple rounds of airstrikes. During the initial operation, ISWAP’s senior leader Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was killed alongside several other senior commanders. By May 19, Nigerian authorities confirmed that 175 ISWAP and Boko Haram militants had been killed. 

One American operation in three days achieved what Nigeria could not achieve in three years.

This is the indictment. If American Navy SEALs can locate, identify, and neutralise senior terrorist commanders in northeastern Nigeria within 72 hours of deployment, then the Nigerian military has known precisely where those commanders were for years. The question is not capability. The question is will. And the question behind that question is: who in Abuja benefits from the will being absent?

Human Rights Watch confirmed in its 2026 World Report that throughout 2025, insecurity remained prevalent across Nigeria, underscoring authorities’ failure to protect communities or ensure accountability — with deadly attacks signalling a resurgence of Boko Haram’s JAS faction, while the authorities failed to hold perpetrators accountable. 

Failed to hold perpetrators accountable. That is the sanitised language of international human rights reporting. From Stockholm, in plain language, I say: the perpetrators were not held accountable because protecting them was a deliberate policy choice made by men with names and addresses.

THE VERDICT OF A CONSCIENCE SHAPED BY HISTORY

I write from Sweden — a country that understands what it means to take human rights seriously, that has built institutions specifically to prosecute the transnational protection of criminals and abusers, that views the silencing of diaspora voices as an act of aggression against democracy itself. I write as a Swedish citizen. I write as the eldest son of Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree QC — Nigeria’s first Solicitor-General, Acting Attorney-General, and the United Nations’ first African Under-Secretary-General. I write as a man whose grandfather participated in Nigeria’s pre-independence negotiations in London, fighting to bring a sovereign nation into being.

They did not do that so Nigerian children could be catalogued as inventory in a kidnapping economy administered with the knowledge and tolerance of the men in Aso Rock.

The Nigerian government cannot investigate itself. Abuja cannot prosecute Abuja. The demand from this desk in Stockholm — sent to the governments of Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union; to INTERPOL, to the International Criminal Court, to every international institution that has accepted Nigeria’s diplomatic courtesies while Nigerian children vanish — is this:

An independent international commission of inquiry must be established immediately to investigate the political protection networks sustaining Nigeria’s terror economy. It must have forensic financial investigators. It must have access to classified Nigerian security files. It must have the authority to name names. It must report publicly. And it must operate entirely outside the control of the Nigerian government.

No immunity. No diplomatic courtesy. No exceptions.

THE FINAL WORD — FROM STOCKHOLM, TO ABUJA, TO THE WORLD

Bola Tinubu is not fighting terrorism. He is managing its optics while accommodating its political sponsors. The bandits are protected. The protectors are known. The intelligence exists. The American military demonstrated in 72 hours what Nigeria’s leadership has spent three years pretending is impossible.

Amnesty International recorded at least 10,217 Nigerians killed by armed groups between May 2023 and May 2025.  That is more than three times the death toll of September 11. Nigeria has endured its own 9/11 — not once, but repeatedly, continuously, every single year of this presidency. And the response from Aso Rock has been condolence statements, political rallies, and ransom payments.

From the shores of Lake Mälaren, in the capital of a country where rule of law is not a slogan but a lived reality, I render my judgment on Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the governing network around him:

You have blood on your hands. The blood of teachers. The blood of children. The blood of every Nigerian who was taken while you held power and chose not to act.

History does not forget. And neither will I.

Kio Amachree is President of Worldview International, a Stockholm-based diaspora advocacy and accountability platform. He publishes through Vanguard, Sahara Reporters, and Starconnect Media, and files formal submissions with the FBI, DEA, Serious Fraud Office, National Crime Agency, INTERPOL, the Swedish Foreign Ministry, and the European Parliament’s LIBE Committee. He writes under The Kio Solution framework.

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