Interesting facts you do not know about Reno Omokri

Bemigho Reno Omokri, popularly known as Reno Omokri, is an author and lawyer. Omokri was the host of Transformation with Reno Omokri, a Christian teaching TV show broadcast on San Francisco’s KTLN and Detroit’s Impact Network books, Shunpikin.

Reno Omokri is best known for his intelligent write-ups on social media. And this apparently has earned him a lot of fans both on social media and in reality. His tweets focus on battling against the ills of the present government, advising young people, teaching upcoming people how to make money and others.

In this article, we will be looking at Reno Omokri biography and everything you needs about him

BIOGRAPHY

The human rights activist, Reno Omokri, was born on Jan 22 1974 in Nigeria to a middle-class family, his father Justice Jean Omokri and his mother Helen Bemigho, He is a famous author, Human rights activist and a lawyer. He completed his graduation from a university named, University of Wolverhampton. Reno Omokri is happily married and blessed with three children, one daughter Tsola and two sons Misan and Tosan.

CAREER

Reno Omokori as an author

Reno Omokri is the author of a multimedia design, Build Up Nigeria, and has created a series of short films in the U.S. Omokri continues to write articles for major newspapers mainly political OpEd and Christian material.

Reno Omokri has written so many books, some of his publications are:

Leah Sharibu: The Girl Boko Haram left behind
Why Jesus wept. 2015
Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God. 2013
Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan
Years, Chibok, 2015 and the Conspiracies.
Apples of Gold (a book of Godly wisdom).

Reno as a Pastor

He is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California and Abuja. He is also known for using social media to project the Gospel.

Reno Political career

Omokri was the Vice President, Africa, at Joe Trippi and Associates, a U.S Political Consulting firm.

He was the spokesman to the former president of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Johnathan.  As the Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria, he was noted for using social media to conduct surveys and project the developments undertaken by the Nigerian Government.

When President Umaru Musa Yar’adua was evacuated from Nigeria to Saudi Arabia on November 23, 2009, for a medical emergency, he did not hand over executive powers to his vice, Jonathan. This led to the founding of the G55 – a group that put pressure on the Nigerian Senate to transfer power to Jonathan.

In 2011 he led some Diaspora Nigerians to endorse Jonathan for the 2011 elections, Omokri was a signatory of a letter by a group known as G 57 that called for the resignation of Yar’adua.

During Nigeria’s 2019 General Elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission postponed the election previously scheduled to hold on Saturday, February 16, 2019, by a week.

As the election postponement was announced only 5 hours before the polls were to open, many Nigerians were angry having travelled at huge expense to vote only to be frustrated. As a result of their frustrations, Omokri initiated a program he tagged #BusesForDemocracy, which provided free transportation to voters to their polling unit irrespective of who they intended to vote for.

Reno Omokri as a human rights activists

Omokri is the founder of the Free Leah Sharibu movement, which is a media campaign advocating for the freedom of Leah Sharibu, a Christian girl who was kidnapped by the radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

On February 19, 2018. Boko Haram offered to release Sharibu if she would convert to Islam, but she refused to renounce her Christian faith.

Omokri has raised over £4000 for Miss Sharibu’s parents through the clothing line and book by former British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson MP. Omokri wore the customised #FreeLeahSharibu tracksuit over Mount Everest in Nepal on April 11 2019.

On  November 2, 2019, Omokri was honoured with the Humanitarian of the Year award at the Hollywood Weekly Magazine Film Festival, at Warner Brothers Studio in Burbank, California, for his work on the #FreeLeahSharibu campaign

Reno Omokri successfully supported a campaign to unfollow Nigeria’s president, Muhammad Buhari on Twitter. His campaign #UnfollowBuhari led to a 100,000 drop in the Nigerian President’s Twitter following in just 3 hours

Omokri led a series of protests, On April 2, 2021, in London to force General Buhari to return to Nigeria, instead of relying on the UK for healthcare. Mr Buhari had flown into London the previous day.