The Assistant
Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 2 Command, Abdulmajid Ali, says
the case of Joe Chinakwe, who named his dog Buhari, has no connection with
President Muhammadu Buhari.
The AIG said the man named after his
neighbour’s father and not the President.
He said Chinakwe was not arraigned for naming
the dog Buhari, but for inscribing the name on both
sides of the dog and parading it around the Ketere area of Sango Ota, in the
Ado Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, adding that his behaviour was
capable of causing a breach of the peace.
Chinakwe, who had been
released on bail, was arraigned after his neighbour, Halilu Umar, whose late
father bore Buhari, reported him to the police.
In a statement on Monday, by the zone 2 command
spokesperson, SP Muyiwa Adejobi, the AIG, stated that the case was misconstrued
as an attack on the President.
The statement read in part, “The case has
nothing to do with the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President
Mohammad Buhari, but with one Alhaji Buhari,the biological father of the
complainant, Alhaji Halilu Umar.”
“It is fundamental to state that the man was
not charged to court for christening his dog Buhari, but for the behaviour of
the suspect and circumstances surrounding the matter when Mr. Joe
(Chinakwe), who had been having conflicts with his neighbour,(complainant)
named his dog Buhari, his neighbour’s father’s name, inscribed Buhari on
both sides of the said dog, and started parading the dog with swagger among his
neighbours and traders who are mostly northerners.”
-Punch
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