man arrested for naming his dog after Buhari

The Ogun state police command has arrested a 30-year-old trader named Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, for naming his pet dog ‘Buhari'. According to Vanguard Joe was arrested after a neighbour who is from the North, filed a complaint at Sango Police Station, that Joe named his dog after his father, Alhaji Buhari.

However, it was gathered that efforts by the police to recover the dog, which they intended using as evidence failed following a much clever move by the suspect who allegedly instructed his friends secretly to kill the dog. All appeals by his friends and relations for the police to grant him bail failed as the complainant and his kinsmen reportedly threatened to kill the trader if the police happened to released him on bail.

A relation to the suspect who simply identified self as Chiedozie told Vanguard :

who simply identified himself as Chiedozie,

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who simply identified himself as Chiedozie,

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 “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.” He further expressed fears that he may either be poisoned inside a police cell or thrown into jail.

The acting Police spokesman in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, ASP, stated that indeed Joe bought a dog, but he inscribed Buhari on both sides of the dog's body and paraded the dog around the area.

"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.”