Kio Amachree leads Worldview International, a diaspora accountability platform based in Stockholm. He's become one of Nigeria's most vocal critics of President Tinubu and his associates, and he hails from Rivers state.
Amachree has gained a reputation for sharp, unsparing attacks on the administration. His work stands out at a time when many Nigerians have grown weary and opted for silence amid what he views as systemic oppression.
In recent commentary on his concerns about Western enablers of Nigerian corruption, Amachree has turned his focus squarely on Britain. "Britain is not a bystander to Nigerian corruption," he told reporters.
"Britain is the bank."
He outlined his efforts to alert British institutions to the problem. "I wrote to newspaper editors across London — not one replied," he said.
"I wrote to government ministers and departments — not one responded."
Only one UK institution engaged with him substantively. "The only institution in the entire United Kingdom that had the professionalism to sit across a table from me was the Serious Fraud Office," Amachree explained.
He rejected the idea that this silence stemmed from ignorance or bureaucratic delay. "It is arithmetic," he said bluntly.
"The silence of the rest is not neutrality — it is complicity."
Amachree invoked a foundational principle of English law: the receiver of stolen goods bears the same guilt as the thief. Nigeria's own presidential anti-corruption adviser once described London as "the most notorious safe haven for looted funds in the world," he noted.
He then cited official British figures to make his case. The National Crime Agency estimates over £100 billion gets laundered through or within the UK annually, he pointed out.
The agency's own risk assessment suggests up to £10 billion in illicit money flows through the London property market each year.
"These are not my figures," Amachree stressed. "These are Her Majesty's — now His Majesty's — own enforcement agencies confessing, in print, to the scale of the laundromat they preside over."
He traced this pattern across decades. Former Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was caught at Heathrow with suitcases of cash and £15 million in London property, he recalled.
Before that, the Abacha billions flowed through Western banks while British regulators remained unmoved.
Recent investigations have documented the scope of the problem. Finance Uncovered and Premium Times identified UK property connected to more than one hundred wealthy and politically exposed Nigerians, Amachree noted.
"Every one of those transactions had a British counterparty," he said. "A British banker who onboarded the client.
A British solicitor who conveyed the property. A British compliance officer who waved it through."
He posed a direct challenge to British authorities. "Where are their prosecutions?" Amachree asked.
"Where is the reckoning for the receivers?"
