Wednesday 17 August 2016

Police arrests man for calling his pet Buhari

Pet named Buhari

A 30-year-old trader named Fortemose Chinakwe, who lives in Ogun State has been arrested by security operatives just because he named his pet dog Buhari. The arrest came after his neighbour who is from the Northern part of Nigeria got that the dog was named after his father, Alhaji Buhari.

The case was then reported to the Police Station in Sango, last weekend, thereafter the police left their criminals they were supposed to go after, and went to arrest the young man for such a flimsy bitterness expressed by the complainant.

Consequently, all the efforts of the police to get the dog apprehended as an evidence were futile, as according to sources, the suspect supposedly told some of his acquaintances to secretly kill and may be eat it, in order to avert any implication.

However, 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 he was released on bail.

Family members of the suspect who made attempt to get the man on bail were told that the suspect had been transferred to Ogun State Police Command Headquarters located at Eleweran.

Chiedozie who is relative to the suspect narrates how his brother was being treated in such an unjust manner: “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 confirmed the incident.

According to the ASP: “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 said: “The dog cannot follow anybody except the owner. We will use him as our evidence because he did not deny it.”

The question one may ask is, why will the Nigerian Police stoop so low to give such a sentimental and trivial complaint such a treatment while the criminals they are supposed to go after smiles home and walk freely on the streets daily even when they know some of them?

The world over, people name their pets with human names and nobody uses any security agency to intimidate anyone, provided your pet does not breach into another’s property.


Nigerian Police, you have a long way to go.

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