Normally, a legitimate public interest in a subject matter or the people involved will outweigh any embarrassment to the one named. FrontPage Africa’s March 18, 2020 Editorial, titled: Calling the Names of Those Coming Down with COVID-19 Is Wrong; Stop the Stigma, Mr. President, Min. Nagbe & NPHIL, for most part, indicated that President Weah made a “fatal mistake” to have named Mr. Nathaniel Blama, Head of Liberia’s Environmental Protection Agency, and Liberia’s index case of COVID-19. To these I ask whether the subject matter and the person involved are of legitimate public concern? Legitimate public concern, like details of an index case of COVID-19, should outweigh whatever degree of embarrassment a victim of such suffered.

Source: Front Page Africa March 19, 2020 21:56 UTC