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- Nigeria man shares his love story.
The EFCC was originally set up, commissioned, and rushed into law in 2003 on the direct request and intense diplomatic pressure of the United States government.
The G7 nations and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had already officially blacklisted Nigeria as a non-cooperative state in 2001, and Western powers were aggressively preparing to tighten the financial screws, block international bank transfers, freeze Nigerian accounts, and isolate our banking sector should an anti-money laundering agency not be established immediately to protect Western financial interests.
The very first sets of EFCC officers, forensic auditors, and field agents were directly trained by American intelligence agencies, including the CIA, the FBI, the US Secret Service, and the US Department of Justice. The British government similarly dispatched intelligence operatives to train these agents, and Western intelligence was actively, deeply involved in writing the core operational doctrines, investigative protocols, and legal frameworks of the EFCC.
Even to this very day, American and European intelligence agencies continue to provide specialized training, advanced surveillance technology, forensic software, and joint capacity-building programs to the EFCC on a continuous basis.
The EFCC continues to maintain direct, operational, and daily linkages with the FBI and Western intelligence agencies to this very day. This is precisely why the agency mysteriously possesses almost infinite financial resources, high-tech tracking equipment, and lightning-fast speed whenever it comes to hunting down local "Yahoo boys" targeting Western citizens, or selectively harassing opposition political candidates in Nigeria.
Yet, the exact same agency suddenly becomes completely paralyzed, infinitely slow, legally toothless, and pathetically powerless whenever it comes to investigating corporate tax evasion, oil bunkering, illegal mining, and the systemic looting of local public funds that starves Nigerian schools and hospitals.
Nobody is making the simplistic and lazy argument that 100% of our current economic predicaments, security collapses, and political decay in Nigeria should be attributed exclusively to the CIA or foreign corporations. But aggressively trying to over-localize our structural problems, blaming only local corruption, and completely dismissing documented foreign interference and external intelligence control is profoundly, criminally misleading.
Players from this generation who are capable of producing a 10/10 performance without scoring:
๐ฆ๐ท Lionel Messi
๐ง๐ท Neymar
๐ช๐ธ Lamine Yamal