Man names dog ‘Buhari’,Gets Arrested
A man in Ogun State is in a hara-kiri after naming his pet dog ‘Buhari.’The trader, Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, 30, of No 10, Omikunle Street, Sango-Ota, Ogun State, was reportedly nabbed by officers of the Nigerian police force after one of his neighbours of Northern extraction, frowned bitterly that he named his dog after his father, Alhaji Buhari.
The claimant had filed a report at Sango Police Station, last Saturday, after which the trader was arrested and detained.
Meanwhile all Efforts by the police to recover the dog, which they intended using as evidence proved abortive as the suspect reportedly asked his friends secretly to kill the dog and possibly eat the meat in order to avoid being implicated.
Be that as it may, appeals by his friends and relations for the police to grant him bail also hit the rock as the accuser and his people reportedly threatened to kill the trader if he was released on bail.
on the flip side, relatives of the suspect who went to Sango police station to secure his released were informed that the case file and the suspect had been transferred to Ogun State Police Command headquarters, at Eleweran.
A close relative of the suspect, Chiedozie, disclosed that his brother was being treated unjustly.
In his words: “Chinakwe is a lover of dogs and he names them after things that tickle him. He bought this dog a year ago and named it Buhari.
“Unfortunately, some Northerners, who dominate the vicinity where he resides misconstrued his intention and connived to take him up. The complainant then claimed it was derogatory because his father answers Buhari.”
Acting Police spokesman in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, ASP, has confirming the incident has said “The man bought a dog and inscribed Buhari on both sides of its body. One Mallam lodged a complaint and when our men got there, we found out that it was true.
“You know such thing can cause serious breach of the peace and ethnic or religious unrest. We are charging him to court for conduct likely to cause a breach of peace.
“He was arrested last Saturday and we are taking him to court later today (Tuesday) or tomorrow morning (today). You know an average Northerner will feel bad over such a thing. It can cause serious ethnic crisis or religious confrontation because when you are relegating such a name to a certain person, you are indirectly insulting him.”
On the whereabouts of the dog, the police spokesman reiterated that: “The dog cannot follow anybody except the owner. We will use him as our evidence because he did not deny it.”
