Journalist David Hundeyin has said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is in Nigeria for purely political reasons because President Bola Tinubu works for them, adding that Nigeria is not a sovereign country.

He said their presence in Nigeria has nothing to do with cybercrime, because no African country is even in the world's top 20 for actual cybercrime.

"All these $2,000 iTunes gift card scams that you people kill yourselves over are not 'cybercrime' - they're petty theft.

"Cybercrime is when Chinese hackers gain access to the control network for the electrical grid supplying an American city.

"Cybercrime is when Romanian hackers penetrate the security of a Canadian bank and siphon $40 million.

"Cybercrime is when Malaysian hackers deliver malware to a Silicon Valley CTO's laptop and encrypt it, permanently locking him out and putting a $5bn startup in trouble unless he pays a $4m ZEC ransom.

"A Yahoo Boy with sagging pants and brown teeth who scams $500 gift cards out of lonely old white women is not a "cybercriminal" - he's a fucking idiot. We don't have cybercriminals in Nigeria. We just have idiots. And the FBI didn't leave the world headquarters of idiots and travel to West Africa just to hunt idiots when they already have so many at home.

"It's 100% political," he said.

ASA