Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has offered to assist Kate Dekpe, a resident of Oviri-Agbarho, a submerged community in Delta state.
Speaking to Quest News in a video, Dekpe narrated, in pidgin English, how she lost her birds to the disaster.
“The flood started gradually. When It first started, I thought it affected just my neighbour. I did not know it will get to my house,” Dekpe said in pidgin.
“As I am speaking to you right now, I lost over 300 fowls. Please, let the government come to our aid.”
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After seeing the video, Omokri picked interest in Dekpe’s use of pidgin English which he described as “most poetic l dialect I have ever heard in the English language.
“Can you help me identify this woman. I want to financially assist her, not because of the loss she suffered from the flood, but because her pidgin English is the most poetic l dialect I have ever heard in the English language. Send her details to [email protected],” he wrote on Twitter.
Can you help me identify this woman. I want to financially assist her, not because of the loss she suffered from the flood, but because her pidgin English is the most poetic l dialect I have ever heard in the English language. Send her details to [email protected] #RenosNuggets pic.twitter.com/aYUZzy5xOo
Advertisement— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) September 16, 2018
On Thursday, Omokri announced that he had been able to reach Dekpe.
In a video he posted of her, Dekpe said she would open a bank account and make public her details, while urging well meaning Nigerians to help her.
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I have found her!!! The lady with the poetic pidgin English. Her name is Kate Dekpe. She lost almost all her earthly possessions, but she did not lose her grit. I have asked her to open an account in her name. When she does so, I urge all my followers to donate #RenosNuggets pic.twitter.com/WOlHAVTpSD
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) September 17, 2018
These are the account details of Kate Dekpe, the poetic pidgin speaker whose viral video went I released yesterday. She has opened an account. Please help her with your donations. She lost almost all she had in that flood, but we can flood her with God’s love #RenosNuggets pic.twitter.com/C5gmYQDbCv
Advertisement— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) September 17, 2018
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1 comments
Dear sir
We hope this letter will get to the hands of our honourable president of federal republic of Nigeria and to whom it may concern as a Nigerian to be aware of what your fellow Nigerians are going through in the hands of Togo government and it authorities.
We the entire your brothers and sisters Nigerian prisoners in Togo wish you long life for the good work you are doing for the betterment of Nigeria.
We are not asking for money or for food but to come for our rescue as we dying one after another. They are giving us mental and physical torture and killing our future and the future of our children for those of us here in prison who are married with wife and children.Our future is being destroyed and our children no longer go to school any more .
We thank you very much and will be sincerely be very happy if you can remember us and do something concerning this deplorable conditions of Nigerians in Togo prison .
But as a matter of fact we were expecting changes from the justice of Togo Republic but all we can get from them is high sentences with hatred and wickedness and mockery more than as it was before when comes to a matter that concerns Nigerians
For their so called aziz judgement of few months ago, for example in business cases ,Togo citizen was giving 2 to 4 years but in the case of Nigerians was given ,10 to 15 years. Most of Nigerians in Togo prisons are business people.
Togo government and it authorities hate Nigerians to the last. With little offence as a Nigerian they most put you in prison for year’s without judgement for the sake of using us to collect more from E.U
We are pleading to you to use your good office in nigeria to look into our problem and rescue us from Togo government who are using Nigerian prisoners to trade and collect money from.E.U and other international bodies. This is why many Nigerians have stayed 2to10 plus without judgement
We are feeding ourselves here in the prison. They are doing all this because the government of Togo don’t spend any money on prisoners. They depend on EU and other international bodies to give them money for prisoners but prisoners feed themselves especially Nigerians
We want to let you know that the Togo governments are collecting money from from E.U and other international bodies for each prisoner daily for their selfish interest not for prisoners. They are happy seeing Nigerians suffering and dying in their prisons with judgement
Togo prison is like a concentration camp of Germany during the time of Hitler which six million people were killed, so it is to us Nigerians.
We are dying one after another, some months ago one Mr Charles died due to non medical attention upon the money we the Nigerian prisoners contributed and gave to the authorities of the prison for his treatment, many Nigerians has died since five years I entered into this Togo prison without judgement.many are very sick without medical attention and without food. some Nigerians here in Togo prison have stayed 2to10 years plus without judgement
We sincerely honor and respect you and also respect the weight of Nigeria in Africa and the world as you hear little of what we nigerians are going through in Togo.some months ago a prisoner was bitten to death with the allegation that he want to run,and they told his people that he has ran away.
Togo government and it authorities are capable of telling you lies as much as you want to hear ,unless you send delegate to confirm what we are saying
In this regard sir with humbleness and respect to you sir and to whom it may concern, on behalf of my fellow prisoners here in Lome Togo Republic, we are pleading to you and to whom it may concern to follow the process of repatriating us back to our country Nigeria to serve our jail terms there even if it will be more harder than here Please we are pleading with tires to come and rescue us back to Nigeria
We hope that this latter we sent to you will not be in vain .
We are expecting to hear from you soon concerning this letter
Thanks and God bless you, and bless federal republic of Nigeria.
Thanks from Ben Okolie
On be half of the Nigerian prisoners in Togo