Sometimes, even on teh intarwebz, you can spot a hunter, or even someone with common sense, just from a single post. The urban fools who are the targets of this story can't even imagine the simple truth you elucidate: even if one lays out bait (which is illegal in most of North America, but not Africa) you can't expect a particular game animal to turn up, or stipulate the time or any other particulars.
Someone was looking to make a political case and this Dentist is the unfortunate person fitting the target profile. The physical hunter became the politically hunted.
Yup, this guy was set up, and to add insult to injury, no one cared who he was in particular, just that he could be used for their purposes. Baited, as it were.
[Yup, this guy was set up]
Tell us, then, on the intarwebz as you say, how the guy was “set up” if a specific animal wasn’t lured out.
This should be good.