Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has praised the Bola Tinubu administration for recognising and rewarding Mr. Umar Audu, a Daily Nigerian journalist who exposed the certificate racketeering ongoing at a university in the Benin Republic.
Omokri spoke after the National Orientation Agency (NOA) wrote a letter of commendation to Audu, praising his exposé as a “shining example of first-class journalism for national development”.
In the letter dated January 3, 2024, and signed by its Director-General, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, the NOA said Audu’s “laudable” work reminds the Nigerian media of its “agenda-setting roles for development rather than adversarial journalism”.
See copy of the letter below:
In a Thursday post on X, Omokri praised the Tinubu administration’s reaction to Audu’s journalistic work.
He said, “I commend the Tinubu administration for recognising and rewarding Mr. Umar Audu for his brilliant investigative journalism that exposed the six-week degree for cash scheme in Benin Republic.
“I particularly commend Mr. Lanre Issa Oniru, the Director General of the National Orientation Agency. He is a round peg in a round hole. A man who knows his job. And it is not just that. The administration acted in record time to take corrective measures by blacklisting the institutions concerned.
“It is not every time we condemn and criticise. If the government does well, let us commend. If they misbehave, we condemn. It will make them want to act well to elicit the praise of the citizenry.”