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I’m not much of a CIA essentialist, but it’s telling how confidently you people wear ignorance as a badge of honour. What exactly makes you so impervious to evidence? People who raise the CIA argument are not claiming that foreign intelligence was directly responsible for every failure visible in Nigerian governance. What they typically do is map the specific dimensions through which foreign intelligence shapes and penetrates your institutions, dimensions you could verify independently if you chose to. What the dismissive and unteachable people like you do instead is construct a strawman and assault it. You fabricate positions that were never advanced by those who warned you about foreign interference, then congratulate yourselves for dismantling them. None of this forecloses local accountability. Both postures are actually compatible and necessary. Hold your leaders responsible, and simultaneously remain alert to the precise mechanisms through which external forces condition your government and your daily life. This is, after all, a country where foreign governments and institutions exercise influence over your agriculture, your medicine, your financial architecture, your immunisation programmes, and your military infrastructure. That warrants serious attention. No degree of domestic accountability, however rigorous, can resolve what has been structurally compromised from outside. This has always been the point.🤦🏾‍♂️

“You have no light at the airport, and I have to fly back within the next 10 minutes. To the victims, there's nothing I can give you, whether it's money in millions, but console you and promise you that this experience will not repeat itself." — Tinubu tells bereaved families in Jos.