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Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo
Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo
BornAugust 6th 1964
Ibadan, Nigeria
NationalityNigerian
OccupationInternational Journalist
Websitewww.hnnafrica.com

Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo (born Olukemi Omololu-Olunloyo), also known as Snitchlady, is a Nigerian journalist, pharmacist, public relations specialist, gun violence activist and social media personality. She is also the editor of #HNNAfrica, a world and health news blog.

Background

Omololu-Olunloyo is the second of ten children and grew up 14 years in Nigeria, 30 years in the United States and five years in Canada. Her father is Victor Omololu Olunloyo, a Mathematician and politician in the First and Second Nigerian Republic (1962–1983). She received a top 3 finalist nomination by Social Media Awards Africa for Social Media Influencer of the Year where she was the only female and only Nigerian.[1]

Career

Omololu-Olunloyo attended elementary school in Ibadan, Nigeria and high school in Oxford, England.

Omololu-Olunloyo has appeared as a journalist/reporter on terrorism and health topics on CNN, Ruptly, CTV News, BBC, Nigerian Television Authority and Fox News. In 2010, Omololu-Olunloyo served on the Governors Advisory Council at Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ontario.[2] She also worked briefly as a music journalist with the Nigerian Tribune [3] after a five-year stint running her own global music blog HipHossip Canada chosen by BET as their Canadian based hip-hop correspondent for the show "The Deal" showcasing rising hip-hop stars.[4]

On May 31 2015 Olukemi Omololu Olunloyo was quoted by the Pulse in Nigeria as saying ""Today is my last day in Journalism, Pharmacy, Public Relations and Community Activism. I will be retiring from my certified professions and and becoming a Health and Wellness consultant running VitaminKemi. I am no longer interested in my professions of over 25 years and want to do what I love the most, educating people about their wellness. It is a new direction for me and I thank you for all the memories on this page since Jan 25th 2013." [5] Despite the fact, Omololu-Olunloyo continues to work as a Special Medical Correspondent for the Nigerian Television Authority

It was during the course of her temporary position as a VIP blogger for Pulse Nigeria that Kemi used the medium to lash out at Nigerian Men, she was quoted by Pulse Nigeria as saying: "Why must I marry a Nigerian man? 90% of my fans are males on social media. Nigerian men don't work, they steal, lie and most of all, they SMELL." Kemi Olunloyo was also quoted as saying "These guys don't know what an ordinary deodorant is. They stink of sweat, urinate on the streets and absolutely not worth my time.If I married one, it was for the money and I will probably have him killed later by a hired assassin.Most Nigerian women don't speak out. They are beaten, raped and killed by their own husbands yet they tell me my "mates" are in their husbands house. Yeah, right suffering as an award winning wife and getting divorced. 90% of my classmates are divorced and claim they were beaten! 3 DIED!Nigerian women living LIES!! Why is some lady called Funmi Iyanda talking on abusive marriages in the Tribune saying your men should be excommunicated? I thought my mates were married and happy? You fucking DUMB bitches are being beaten to a pulp and u stay there to get your title of Mrs?F***k Nigerian men and the women who sit in their domain. U need to get a gun and BLOW your husband's brain OUT if he touches you!"[6][7]

Gun Violence Activism

Omololu-Olunloyo is known on crime fighting social media handles as "Snitchlady" where she spread awareness on accountability of male homicides specifically black male homicides in the Toronto, Canada area. She held news conferences for bereaved families giving the homicide of their loved ones exposure in the media. She sent press releases out after every homicide and linked with families willing to appeal for information. Her community activism work caught the attention of Toronto Police Service who attended her press conferences with the media. She later joined the service as a volunteer at a critical time when black male homicides were rising and the Toronto Sun featured her in an article 'Young, Black and Dead' where she told the paper that families and citizens must start snitching to police if they have information about murders and must also start reporting guns.[8] Omololu-Olunloyo reached citizens directly by encouraging them to use Crime Stoppers, an anonymous phone and reward system used to report crimes in North America.[9]

In November 2010, Omololu-Olunloyo used her work as a music journalist in Canada to gather rappers together to denounce gun violence.[10][11] Later in July 2012 Omololu-Olunloyo attempted to have a ceasefire rally in the parking lot of a Toronto Police station, but was not given permission to use the lot. The area was primarily a Somali neighborhood that had lost five young males in 30 days. She criticized police in that neighborhood of not caring about the community. Later police in Rexdale's 23 Division helped her organize the rally safely in a park in the same neighborhood and many residents and media attended.[12] During the 2011 Canadian Federal elections, she told the Winnipeg Free Press that the problem of black male homicides could be reduced and ended if the government provided jobs to these young men and go after guns, otherwise the criminal life pays them more.[13] Omololu-Olunloyo was also responsible for pairing police and rappers together to record a series of local public service announcements on Toronto radio against gun violence.[14] After many years of advocacy, she continues to speak out from Nigeria via social media and global TV networks on mass shootings in cities and towns across the US and Canada including Columbine, Aurora, Danzig, Sandy Hook and the Charleston Church shooting. On ending her gun violence activism in Toronto, she wrote an article addressing the ongoing gun violence advising Torontonians to end the problem.[15]

Community and Social Activism

Omololu-Olunloyo has used social media to raise awareness on the surging rate of male prostitution in Nigeria. In 2014 she warned men to stop soliciting sex and exposing themselves on social media, something very rampant in Nigeria. Using herself as an example, she carried out threats of exposing such men by publishing names, photos and actual messages inboxed to her on her website HNNAfrica. Omololu-Olunloyo, also a pharmacist stated on the website that sexually transmitted diseases prevalent in Nigeria along with infidelity were the reasons she decided to raise this awareness.[16] She continues to reach communities in Nigeria by visiting citizens on the streets weekly discussing issues from politics to lifestyle, poverty, health and unemployment then posting videos on her Facebook fanpage.[17] Omololu-Olunloyo also speaks out on a range of topics online as a social media activist.

Controversies

In 2009 the Toronto Star reported that Ms. Olukemi Omololu-Olunloyo was wanted in Newton County, Georgia where there are several warrants for her arrest. These were for failing to appear in court on charges including cruelty to children, simple battery, jumping bail, terroristic threats/intimidation of a juror or court officer and obstruction of an officer.[18][19]

During the course of Omololu-Olunloyo's Deportation in 2012 Vesna Cikovic, mother of Boris Cikovic, the victim of a gang robbery spoke about Kemi misrepresenting herself to families of homicide victims, Cikovic was quoted as saying "Who gave her the right to call herself a community advocate?” She said whatever she felt like, wrote untruths on blogs. I read something she wrote about Boris and I disliked it and knew that I didn’t want to have anything to do with her.” [20]

Toronto Police Spokesman Constable Scott Mills described her as someone who "could reach an audience that myself as a police officer and us as a police service were having challenges to reach" he has also been quoted as saying "I’ve been criticized by the public and colleagues for associating with her,” said Const. Scott Mills of Crime Stoppers. “But the bottom line is we solved some crimes because of my association with her and we have received info in a timely way, where we got guns off the streets and saved lives." [21] and that some major incidents would not have been solved without her active involvement getting communities to talk, but he remains ambivalent about her role.[22] As of August 2015 the warrants are still active. Olukemi "Ashley" Olunloyo is listed as having 4 outstanding warrants for her arrest in Georgia, United States. [23]

Omololu-Olunloyo is a controversial Journalist in Nigeria, she uses social media to start conversations and empower many citizens. In 2013 The Punch newspapers, Nigeria's leading daily called her "un-Nigerian" based on the fact that many citizens do not understand her 35-year culture living in North America denouncing homophobia, polygamy and many acceptable cultural things in Nigeria.[24] Later in 2015, she told the Punch newspapers that many of the youth misunderstand her on social media and she only "shouts down" the bullies that don't want to learn.[25]

Omololu-Olunloyo supports gays and lesbians and denounces Nigeria's anti-gay laws.[26] In August 2015, she urged the Nigerian government to repeal the anti-gay law citing Nigeria being ignored from global opportunities.[27]

Popular Nigerian Pastor E.A Adeboye was due to visit Ibadan, Nigeria on December 23rd 2013 to hold a religious rally, Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo took to social media to express her anger towards Pastor Adeboye and was quoted by the Naij.com website and Pulse Nigeria as saying "Cultist and Gay Pastor PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE will be in Ibadan Monday. Since he is coming to leave my city with his CURSE, I hope his private plane crashes on take off at Alakia if curses rain that day. Post a comment and try disrespecting my views on my page and you will see the block button fast. Do you think Adeboye is an overstretched modern cultist who sells pure water, bread, schools with N635,000 a term tuition filled with cocaine addicted children and simply turned his congregation into religious bondage? The church is a business and not a place to fool and lie(sic) others." [28] [29]

As Adeboye arrived at 7am on December 23rd 2013, Nigeria's Osun Defender newspaper reported that Omololu-Olunloyo successfully cancelled the rally to be held by Nigerian Megapastor Enoch Adeboye in her hometown. She cited that the flamboyance of his religious ministry gave nothing to the poor but instead decided to come into her city, Ibadan Nigeria two days before Christmas to cause a traffic gridlock near supermarkets and shopping centers along the same route. She told the RCCG (Redeeemed Christian Church of God) that she will organize a protest and shut down the religious rally. Osun Defender reported that the church allegedly gave in to her demands canceling the rally to avoid any disruptions and moved on to the next state, Ilorin, Kwara state on the same day. Omololu-Olunloyo had made her dislike for Nigerian Pastors public from the very beginning stating they only existed to turn religion into a business. She later posted on her Facebook page that she was proud of what she did. Omololu-Olunloyo has always openly expressed her dislike for religion on her Facebook page stating she is spiritual while religion is a "disease"[30] Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo's own father Victor Omololu Olunloyo later spoke to Nigeria's leading daily newspaper The Punch that he supported his daughter's views on religion saying "I like her condemnation of religion- very bold. Where did these churches come from? There are three or four churches that should be wiped out of the Lagos –Ibadan expressway. All you have to do is build a barb wire or walls along that express, they were there originally but they cut it. When people were more godly in this country, there weren’t so many churches." Victor Omololu Olunloyo was referring to Enoch Adeboye's church which is located on that very Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. [31]

In March 2014, Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo was quoted by Ynaija internet newspaper as holding her father Victor Omololu Olunloyo hostage. [32]

In September 2014 Olukemi Omololu Olunloyo was attacked by her younger sister in the home that they shared. During the argument that ensued Omololu-Olunloyo was knocked unconscious and was repeatedly kicked and punched by her sister before briefly losing consciousness.[33][34]

In March 2015, Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo spoke to the newspaper Pulse Nigeria about an event that transpired between her and her father Victor Omololu Olunloyo. In what she described as "emotional abuse" to her and her siblings with regards to their father's secret involvement in the occult world, she became an advocate against ritualism on social media. She spoke out against ritualism in Africa in a twitter campaign hashtagged #EndRitualism and vowed that she never wanted what happened in her family to happen to others.[35]

Arrest and Deportation from Canada

In August 2012, Omololu-Olunloyo was arrested in her apartment in Toronto by agents from the Canadian Border Services Agency. After being determined a flight risk, she was remanded into custody at an immigration detention center for 7 days before she was deported to Nigeria.[36][37] Her arrest and deportation story was featured in Nigerian magazine Global Excellence [38]

References

  1. ^ "HERE THEY ARE: 2014 SOCIAL MEDIA AWARDS AFRICA FINALISTS ANNOUNCED!". The Nigerian Voice. 20 December 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  2. ^ "Kingston General Hospital 161st Annual General Meeting" (PDF). KGH. 16 June 2010. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Music on Trial HipHossip Tribunal". Nigerian Tribune. 13 September 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2015.[dead link‍]
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  5. ^ http://pulse.ng/gist/a-new-beginning-kemi-olunloyo-bows-out-of-journalism-to-focus-on-true-passion-id3814001.html
  6. ^ http://pulse.ng/kill-them-all-kemi-olunloyo-says-nigerian-men-lie-steal-smell-and-are-lazy-id2919558.html
  7. ^ http://afrohollywood.net/2014/06/16/nigerian-men-steal-lie-smell-dont-work-kemi-olunloyo-on-why-she-cant-marry-a-nigerian-man/
  8. ^ "Young, Black and Dead". The Toronto Sun. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  9. ^ "It is Criminal Not To Pick Up the Phone". The Toronto Sun. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  10. ^ "Rappers rally Against Gun Violence". The Toronto Sun. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  11. ^ Godfrey, Tom (26 November 2010). "Tone down the violence, rappers say". The Toronto Sun. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  12. ^ "Call for ceasefire in Toronto's Somali community planned". The Toronto Sun. 9 July 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  13. ^ "Vote Canada: Tough talk wins suburbia The issue: Crackdown on Crime". Winnipeg Free Press. 2 April 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2015. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |title= at position 38 (help)
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  15. ^ "crime-activist-enough-is-enough". The Toronto Sun. 16 September 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  16. ^ "Activist Release Names And Photos Of Men Who Beg Her For Sex". Pulse Nigeria. 13 October 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  17. ^ "Facebook HNNAfrica Community Videos". HNNAfrica. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  18. ^ Baute, Nicole (11 July 2009). "Crime victim advocate wanted in Georgia". The Toronto Star. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  19. ^ Knowles, Barbara (15 July 2009). "DA says pharmacist to be extradited". The Newton Citizen. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
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  21. ^ http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/08/27/kemi_omololuolunloyo_controversial_gun_victims_advocate_deported_to_nigeria.html
  22. ^ "Polarizing Toronto activist deported to Nigeria". Globe and Mail. 27 August 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  23. ^ http://www.newtonsheriffga.org/PDF/WARROUT_defendant8-14-2015.pdf
  24. ^ "Kemi Olunloyo's Many Online Controversies". The Punch. 3 April 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  25. ^ "I earn $50 per tweet, says ex-gov's daughter". The Punch. 13 July 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  26. ^ "ANTI-GAY BILL: Kemi Olunloyo Writes Open Letter, Supports Homosexuals=Naijj". 19 August 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  27. ^ "Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo Urges Nigerian Government To Repeal Anti-Gay Law". Omojuwa.com. 3 August 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  28. ^ https://www.naij.com/54908.html
  29. ^ http://pulse.ng/gist/end-times-kemi-olunloyo-insults-pastor-e-a-adeboye-again-id2591514.html
  30. ^ ""I Am Proud To Cancel Pastor Adeboye'S Rally In Ibadan" – Kemi Olunloyo=Naijj". 27 December 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  31. ^ "Awolowo never understood real politics at anytime–Omololu Olunloyo=The Punch". 30 November 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  32. ^ "Kemi Omololu-olunloyo holds father hostage, releases him after 30 minutes=YNaija". 14 March 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2015. {{cite web}}: Missing pipe in: |title= (help)
  33. ^ http://pulse.ng/gist/kemi-omololu-olunloyo-why-my-younger-sister-beat-me-up-id3145057.html
  34. ^ http://www.newsng.com/story-detail.php?title=Kemi-Omololu-Olu
  35. ^ "Controversial Lady says father destroyed family with rituals". Pulse Nigeria. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  36. ^ "No reprieve for Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo". Toronto Sun. 18 August 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  37. ^ "Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo deportation set for Friday". Toronto Sun. 21 August 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  38. ^ "I Was Deported From Prison To Nigeria-Ex-Oyo State Gov's Daughter, Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo". Global Excellence. 26 September 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
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