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OluKemi Ajoke Omololu-Olunloyo also known as Kemi Olunloyo (Born Olukemi Ajoke Omololu-Olunloyo) is a Nigerian International Broadcast Journalist, Public Relations Specialist and Gun Violence Advocate. She is also the Editor of #HNNAfrica, a world and health news blog.

Background

Omololu-Olunloyo attended high school in St Teresa's College in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Her father is Victor Omololu Olunloyo, a Mathematician and politician in the First and Second Nigerian Republic (1962–1983).

Career

Omololu-Olunloyo has appeared as a Journalist/Reporter on terrorism topics on CNN, Ruptly, CTV News, BBC and Fox News. In 2010, Omololu-Olunloyo served on the Governors Advisory Council at Canada's oldest public hospital, Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ontario. She also worked briefly as a music journalist with the Nigerian Tribune 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. She is also a freelance on-air personality and traffic reporter at several global radio stations and a Special Medical Correspondent for the Nigerian Television Authority online.

Gun Violence Activism

Olukemi Ajoke 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 for monetary gain 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. In an attempt to stay longer in Canada under her Refugee status her community activism work caught the attention of Toronto Police Service who attended her press conferences with the media. She was featured in an article 'Young, Black and Dead' where she told the Toronto Sun that families and citizens must start snitching to police if they have information about murders and must also start reporting guns. Olukemi Ajoke 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.

In November 2010, Olukemi Ajoke Omololu-Olunloyo used her work as a music journalist in Canada to gather rappers together to denounce gun violence. Later in July 2012 Olukemi Ajoke 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. 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.

Community and Social Activism

In March 2015, Olukemi Ajoke Omololu-Olunloyo was told by her father that she was going to have to leave the compound where she was residing with her father Victor Omololu Olunloyo in an emotional outburst on Facebook and Twitter Kemi Olunloyo attempted to slander her own father online due to these actions. She became an advocate against ritualism and described in a series of explosive tweets and videos on her Facebook fanpage on how her father destroyed her family with rituals and his secret involvement in the occult world. 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. As of this writing Kemi and her father reside in the same domicile with no perceived changes in the future. While in Canada she was responsible for planning several anti-violence community rallies and events designed to keep communities safer and was featured often on CTV National News.

Olukemi Ajoke 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. Omololu-Olunloyo is wanted in Newton, Georgia where there were several warrants for her arrest. These were for 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. Kemi was ultimately arrested and spent one week in Deportation jail before being deported back to Nigeria.

Omololu-Olunloyo was considered a controversial Journalist in Nigeria. As of this writing Kemi Olunloyo is not involved in any media relations employment positions in Nigeria.

Toronto Police Service 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" 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. Scott Mills worked closely with Olukemi Ajoke Omololu Olunloyo when she was arrested for illegally being in Canada on a falsified Refugee VISA.

Arrest and Deportation

Olukemi Ajoke Omololu Olunloyo was arrested in April 2013 and after spending a week in custody was deported back to Nigeria with her son Kayode Joshua. In 2012, she was deported to Nigeria after her application for refugee status was denied.

References

1. "Kingston General Hospital 161st Annual General Meeting" (PDF). KGH. 16 June 2010. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
2. "Music on Trial HipHossip Tribunal". Nigerian Tribune. 13 September 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
3. "Cops enlist rappers to fight violence". Toronto Sun. 23 May 2010. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
4. "Dr Kemi Olunloyo Health Columns". NTAnews. 23 May 2010. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
5. "It is Criminal Not To Pick Up the Phone". The Toronto Sun. 2 December 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
6. "Rappers rally Against Gun Violence". The Toronto Sun. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
7. "Call for ceasefire in Toronto's Somali community planned". The Toronto Sun. 9 July 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
8. "Cops enlist rappers to fight violence". The Toronto Sun. 23 May 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
9. "Controversial Lady says father destroyed family with rituals". Pulse Nigeria. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
10. "Jane-Finch residents plan rally against gun violence". CTV News. 17 October 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
11. Baute, Nicole (11 July 2009). "Crime victim advocate wanted in Georgia". The Toronto Star. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
12. Knowles, Barbara (15 July 2009). "DA says pharmacist to be extradited". The Newton Citizen. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
13. "Polarizing Toronto activist deported to Nigeria=Globe and Mail". 27 August 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
14. 27 August 2012. "Polarizing Toronto activist deported to Nigeria". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 19 August 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
15. "Kemi and family face deportation". The Toronto Sun. 27 April 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
16. "Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo deportation set for Friday". Toronto Sun. 21 August 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2015.

External links

• Snitchlady Blog
• Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo Blog
• HNNAfrica
• HNNRadio

• Nigerian journalists
• African journalists
• Nigerian radio journalists
• Living people
• 1964 births