#HarassOmokri2Pay: A Campaign Against Misinformation By Influencers

Someone may have burst the bubble of former Presidential aide Reno Omokri. 

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Reno is aware that most Nigerians might be averse to a research culture. So, he often freely gives a challenge that says, "fact-check me".

My study of a series of Omokri's "fact-check me" tweets reveals that they are used to influence public opinion unfairly. So, recently, he gave such a challenge which appears to cast a past Nigerian Presidential administration in a bad light as a means of making the current administration look better than it deserves.

In that tweet, Omokri was selling the Tinubu Administration using its air safety profile. To achieve that, Omokri, inter alia, claimed that Nigeria was averaging 5 Plane crashes per year some time during the Obasanjo days.

As usual, Omokri said "fact-check me" and promised the sum of $10,000 to anyone who could fault his stats.

I did the fact-check, faulted Omokri, and informed him via up to two X mentions but he has been ignoring me for days. I have also found a lot of other ways Omokri is constituting a huge hazard to the Nigerian society out of his safe overseas' havens.

I will share these with time. For now, please, I'm saying that Omokri who went intercontinental to "torment" and "harass" a Nigerian president out of London and New York should not be the one to be taking Nigerians for granted by making fake promises to cover up his irresponsible use of misinformation.

The use of false information to promote eggregiously bad leadership while discouraging truly helpful options is a major member of the list of this abuse. So, kindly join me to #HarassOmokri2pay for his irresponsible use of information to achieve selfish sinister ends against Nigeria.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Kindly reshare this post with the hashtag #HarassOmokri2Pay or HarassReno2Pay or both. Let it become a social media protest against the irresponsible use of information by influencers... because it's damaging our world so surreptitiously. Look for social media SHARE link at the foot 🦶 of this article 👇👇👇.

After Reno must have paid me, I promise to donate 20% of that to two nationally popular religious charities (1 Christian and the other Muslim) that will be chosen via a social media nomination and voting exercises. The fund will be meant to help with catering for vulnerable Nigerians. Please, more to come on the procedure. So, kindly stay tuned on X. Thank you.