SHOCKING REVELATION : Bill Gates, MI6, CIA-Linked NGOs directly involved in writing Nigeria’s security, Health, Food and Tax Laws

Foreign intelligence agencies and organisations, including those tied to the CIA, Britain’s MI6, and US billionaire Bill Gates, have been revealed to be directly involved in drafting Nigeria’s health and food laws.

A leaked brochure obtained by West Africa Weekly has revealed that several entities linked to foreign intelligence agencies and private foreign interests like the Gates Foundation are officially listed among the “development partners” of the National Assembly (NASS).

The brochure was produced to mark the 10th NASS Open Week held from 8 to 10 July 2025.

Among the listed organisations are the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), which is the parent agency of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6), the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) ,which is funded by the MacArthur Foundation, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), a German state-funded political foundation with a long history of CIA collaboration; and YIAGA Africa, which is funded by the CIA’s notorious regime-change cutout, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

These organisations have directly participated in drafting legislation with major national security significance, including bills regarding state policing, security sector reforms, local government autonomy, the Petroleum Industry Act, tax reform modernisation, and formulation of national healthcare and food security policy.

Such partnerships, under the cover of civil society and development work, amount to direct foreign interference in Nigeria’s internal affairs.

Their existence undermines Nigeria’s sovereignty and legislative independence, especially where they give foreign intelligence agencies the ability to use funding to embed themselves within the strategy and execution layers of the Nigerian government.

Despite this, the National Assembly described the partnerships in the leaked document as “beneficial.”

It claims the collaborations have “strengthened legislative capacity, promoted inclusion, and enriched perspectives.” The brochure also described such foreign engagement as proof of alignment between Parliament, civil society, and “development partners.

Exposes Foreign Intelligence, Gates Foundation’s Direct Role

Of special concern is a section of the brochure titled “Strengthening Multisectoral Synergy in Nutrition and Food Security at the Federal, States, and Local Government Levels,” which specifically reveals the presence of the Gates Foundation and at last 6 of its proxy actors on a 9-member panel on Nigeria’s food policy space – effectively astroturfing an important public discourse about national food policy by ensuring that 7 of the 9 participants were working for the same person.

Ekenem Isichei, Deputy Director at the Gates Foundation, Michael Ojo, Country Director of the Gates-funded Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), and Sunday Okoronkwo, Executive Secretary of the Gates-funded Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (SUNN), were all listed as panelists on the food and nutrition policy session.

UNICEF, which had its Head of Nutrition, Nemat Hajeebhoy, as a representative on the panel, is also a longtime funding beneficiary of the Gates Foundation.

Also listed as a panelist is the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) National President, Engr. Bello Lawal. Engr. Lawal is known to enjoy a close working relationship with the Gates-funded Management Sciences for Health (MSH), and ALGON itself is also a funding beneficiary of the Gates Foundation.

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Dr. Ahmed Abdulwahab, Health Adviser at the Gates-funded Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), is listed as a panelist.

Finally, Uju Anwuka is listed with her double designation as SSA to the President on Public Health and Focal Person at Nutrition-774 (N-774). The N-774 initiative is funded by the Gates Foundation.

The documented overwhelming presence of Bill Gates and his interests on what purported to be a legislative discussion panel provides hard evidence to support what activists in the space have long maintained – that Bill Gates and his multiple local and foreign proxies directly interfere in Nigeria’s state decision making processes with a view to influencing the country’s national health and food security frameworks.

The brochure confirms that foreign actors are not merely advising, but actively participating in policy formulation at the highest levels of governance in Nigeria.

In addition to direct involvement in Nigeria’s governance processes, these foreign actors also provide funding to local civil society groups, which act as their proxies in a complex political astroturfing operation that ultimately shapes laws that govern all aspects of the lives of Nigerians.

Their influence extends from health and nutrition to critical security and economic policies—areas that are central to Nigeria’s survival and corporate existence.

As a country with the stated ambition of becoming Africa’s continental economic and political hegemon, Nigeria’s entanglement with Western foreign interference extensions at its highest levels of government raises serious concerns about the true situation of Nigeria’s national ambitions, and whether its legislative outcomes reflect the will of the Nigerian people or that of hostile foreign interests operating under the label of “development support.