By Emma Nnadozie, Crime Editor
Sango-ota
A 30-year-old trader has been arrested by the police in Ogun state for naming his pet dog ‘Buhari.’
The trader, Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, of No 10,
Omikunle Street, Sango-Ota, Ogun State, was reportedly arrested last weekend,
after one of his neighbours of Northern extraction complained bitterly that he
named his dog after his father, Alhaji Buhari.
Vanguard learned that the
complainant reported the case at Sango Police Station, last Saturday, after
which the trader was arrested and detained. However, it was gathered that
efforts by the police to recover the dog, which they intended using as evidence
failed following a clever move by the suspect.
The trader, said to be trading
in female wears at a popular market in Sango, allegedly directed his friends
secretly to kill the dog and possibly eat the meat in order to avoid being
implicated. It was gathered that consistent 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.
Trader denied bail The case, however, took a different dimension two days later
when Chinakwe’s relatives went to Sango police station to further plead for his
bail only to be informed that the case file and the suspect have been
transferred to Ogun State Police Command headquarters at Eleweran.
A relation
to the suspect, who simply identified himself as Chiedozie, told Vanguard that
his brother was being persecuted for no just cause and expressed fears that he
may either be poisoned inside police cell or thrown into jail. Chiedozie said:
“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.” Police sources, however, told
Vanguard that the actions of the suspect “were very provocative.” The source
said: “he not only named the dog Buhari but boldly wrote it on the body of both
sides of the dog and was seen parading the neighbourhood dominated by
Northerners with it.” As at press time, relations to the suspect were still
making frantic efforts to effect his bail while his accusers are insisting that
he must be prosecuted.
Police confirms arrest When contacted around 8pm
yesterday, the acting Police spokesman in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, ASP,
said he was still trying to get the Divisional Police Officer in-charge of
Sango for details. Oyeyemi later called, stating that: “I have made enquiries.
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.” Continuing, he said: “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.”
When asked about the whereabouts of the dog that will be used as evidence
against the suspect, 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.”
Source:vanguard
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By Emma Nnadozie, Crime
Editor
Sango-ota—A 30-year-old trader has been arrested by the police in Ogun
state for naming his pet dog ‘Buhari.’
The trader, Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, of No 10, Omikunle Street,
Sango-Ota, Ogun State, was reportedly arrested last weekend, after one
of his neighbours of Northern extraction complained bitterly that he
named his dog after his father, Alhaji Buhari.
Vanguard learned that the complainant reported the case at Sango Police
Station, last Saturday, after which the trader was arrested and
detained.
However, it was gathered that efforts by the police to recover the dog,
which they intended using as evidence failed following a clever move by
the suspect.
The trader, said to be trading in female wears at a popular market in
Sango, allegedly directed his friends secretly to kill the dog and
possibly eat the meat in order to avoid being implicated. It was
gathered that consistent 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.
Trader denied bail
The case, however, took a different dimension two days later when
Chinakwe’s relatives went to Sango police station to further plead for
his bail only to be informed that the case file and the suspect have
been transferred to Ogun State Police Command headquarters at Eleweran.
A relation to the suspect, who simply identified himself as Chiedozie,
told Vanguard that his brother was being persecuted for no just cause
and expressed fears that he may either be poisoned inside police cell or
thrown into jail.
Chiedozie said: “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.”
Police sources, however, told Vanguard that the actions of the suspect
“were very provocative.”
The source said: “he not only named the dog Buhari but boldly wrote it
on the body of both sides of the dog and was seen parading the
neighbourhood dominated by Northerners with it.”
As at press time, relations to the suspect were still making frantic
efforts to effect his bail while his accusers are insisting that he must
be prosecuted.
Police confirms arrest
When contacted around 8pm yesterday, the acting Police spokesman in Ogun
State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, ASP, said he was still trying to get the
Divisional Police Officer in-charge of Sango for details.
Oyeyemi later called, stating that: “I have made enquiries. 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.”
Continuing, he said: “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.”
When asked about the whereabouts of the dog that will be used as
evidence against the suspect, 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.”
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