9th March, 2020
Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan has queried the Lagos State Government for keeping the identity of the coronavirus patient away from the public.
Since the first case of the Coronavirus was confirmed in Nigeria, many have pushed for the identity of the Italian to be revealed.
The clergyman to his social media platforms to point out that in 2014, the identity of the index case of Ebola virus in Nigeria, Patrick Sawyer, was made public and nobody saw anything wrong with that.
He wonders why weeks after Nigerians were informed that an Italian had the Coronavirus, his identity is still being kept a secret.
See his tweets below:
Why was the identity of Patrick Sawyer, the index case of #Ebola in Nigeria, released, while that of the Italian index case of #COVID19 is not? It is the same scenario. Would the identity of a Nigerian, who introduced such to Italy, be kept secret?#FreeLeahSharibu #RenosDarts
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) March 8, 2020
A Nigerian player in the Italian league, Serie C, Akpan Udoh, contracted corona virus in Italy, and his identity was released by the Italian authorities. If we released Patrick Sawyer’s identity over Ebola, why are we giving this Italian anonymity?#FreeLeahSharibu #RenosDarts
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) March 8, 2020