2022-02-19
27 分钟Hello, welcome to Outlook Weekend.
I'm Jo Fidgeon.
Rhona Meyer wasn't supposed to become a journalist.
Her mum and dad tried to talk her out of it.
They knew what price she might pay for rocking the boat in Nigeria, but she did it anyway.
And in 2018, exposed a scandal.
Millions of Nigerians addicted to cough syrup containing codeine, risking both their health and their sanity.
It's a prescription drug which is being sold on the black market.
And Rhona had a very personal reason, a very painful reason, for wanting to uncover who was responsible, no matter what the scale of the program was exposed in her BBC documentary, Sweet, Sweet Codeine.
Soon after it came out, Rhona told me how she came to be so committed to the cause.
A story that begins with her father, Godwin Agbrocco, very well known in Nigeria as an investigative journalist and a bit of a hero to Rona.
I had a very atypical Nigerian African father.
We could talk about anything.
So my dad would help me pick out what clothes to wear.
Every event that was journalism related, my dad would pick out what I would wear.
Okay, because, you know, I couldn't let down the side, him being a journalist, I had to keep up.
What kind of clothes would you like you to put on?
What did he think was appropriate?
My dad really liked clothes that showed spunk.
My dad also did not mind if one showed a little bit of flesh, which I say, you know, is very atypical for an African dad.