By Professor Abdullahi Danladi
In the past few days, the Nigerian media was awash with the news that Nigerian government under the leadership of President Tinubu has invited the Mossad security apparatus of Israel to Nigeria under the guise of helping Nigeria to fight insecurity. Many individuals and organizations have expressed trepidation of the deal and have out rightly rejected it. This is so, considering the track record of atrocities and crimes of Mossad wherever they set their evil feet and blood stained hands. Prominent among such personalities is Sheikh Dr. Abubakar Gumi. The Sheikh did not mince words in telling President Tinubu that he has been ill-advised to partner with the agents of devil in matters of Nigeria’s insecurity. Similarly, an Islamic human rights organization, The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has been equally vocal in denouncing the Tinibu’s move. In view of the looming danger on Nigeria, Nigerians must wake up to the reality of what is just unfolding.
The entry of Mossad, Israel’s shadowy intelligence service is not a victory for security, not a gesture of friendship, and certainly not an act of partnership. It is an intrusion disguised as cooperation and a quiet surrender of our sovereignty under the banner of “counter-terrorism.” Those who invited Mossad onto Nigerian soil are not acting for the people; they are acting for themselves, selling the nation’s future in exchange for political convenience and personal gain.
Mossad is no ordinary agency. Its reputation is etched in blood and secrecy: assassinations, espionage, sabotage, blackmail, and the systematic destabilization of other nations. From the Middle East to Latin America, from Africa to Europe, its record is consistent, wherever Mossad operates, division and chaos follow. To imagine Nigeria will be the exception is naïve at best and dangerous at worst.
Africa knows this story all too well. In the Congo of the 1960s, Mossad operatives were accused of training forces implicated in the turmoil following the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, one of the continent’s brightest lights. During South Africa’s darkest years of apartheid, Mossad was linked with the white regime, trading intelligence while Black South Africans suffered in chains. In Uganda, the agency armed and trained Idi Amin only before abandoning him when he was no longer useful. The pattern is familiar: use, exploit and discard.
Beyond Africa, the record is just as stark. Between 2010 and 2012, Iranian nuclear scientists were assassinated in a campaign widely attributed to Mossad. In Lebanon, Palestinian and Hezbollah leaders have been relentlessly targeted through bombings and covert killings. In Europe and Latin America, Mossad has kidnapped and executed those it deemed enemies, often in defiance of international law. These are parts of the fears expressed by Dr. Gumi in the statements he issued. The events of Zaria massacre carried out in 2014 by the President Buhari government against the Islamic Movement under the revered Leadership of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky is linked to the Israeli government through their proxies in Saudi Arabia. This is the organization now welcomed into Nigeria. The question is: what will their presence mean for us?
First: surveillance and monitoring will be the order of the day. Mossad does not restrict itself to terrorists. It spies on leaders, generals, journalists, business elites and anyone of value. Sensitive information that should remain Nigerian will inevitably find its way to Tel Aviv, where it will be used for leverage and blackmail. This is not national protection; it is foreign oversight by stealth.
Secondly: economic capture. Nigeria’s oil, gas, uranium, and agricultural wealth are well known to foreign interests. With Mossad comes the machinery of Israeli-linked firms, entering as “partners” and “investors” but gradually tightening their grip on strategic resources. The danger is clear: Nigerians could wake up one day as strangers in their own economy.
Third: political manipulation. Mossad has a long history of tilting the political scales in other nations. This they achieve by arming one faction, undermining another, fueling divisions that guarantee instability. Therefore, do not expect terrorism to vanish; rather, expect it to be managed, prolonged and even engineered. After all, a stable Nigeria has no need for foreign “help.” An unstable Nigeria does.
And ultimately, the gravest danger is the erosion of sovereignty. Once embedded, Mossad’s influence will be difficult to uproot. Decision-making will increasingly shift away from Abuja and toward Tel Aviv. Leaders who resist will find themselves cornered, pressured, or blackmailed. At that point, Nigeria’s independence will be independence in name only.
Nigerians cannot afford silence. Those who invited Mossad have brought the fox into the henhouse and now parade it as a guard dog. History will not look kindly on such treachery. Mossad’s arrival is not about defeating bandits or terrorists, it is about entrenching foreign control under the illusion of partnership.
If we fail to resist, Nigeria risks being sold off piece by piece until nothing is left to call our own. The stakes are nothing less than the future of our sovereignty.
Mossad’s presence in Nigeria is not salvation. It is a trap. And unless we rise to reject it, we may soon discover that Nigeria no longer answers to Nigerians, but to foreign masters pulling the strings far away.
By Professor Abdullahi Danladi
Resource Forum
Islamic Movement
Nigeria
Adanladi08@gmail.com
