Nelson A. Osuala[17 August 2016] 08:00AM
Credible information has it that a 30-year-old trader has been arrested by the police in Ogun state for allegedly naming his pet dog ‘Buhari.’
According to our source, the trader, Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, was reportedly arrested last Saturday, after one of his neighbours of a Northern extraction complained that the detained named the dog after the his father, one Alhaji Buhari.
Our correspondence learnt that the complainant reported the case at Sango Police Station, last Saturday, after which the trader was immediately arrested and consequently detained.
However, all efforts by the police to recover the dog, which they intend to provide as evidence proved abortive following what may be described as a 'clever move by the suspect'.
Laying credence to Vanguard online, the trader, who sells female wears at a popular market in Sango, allegedly directed his friends secretly to kill the dog and hence dispose its meat in order to avoid being implicated.
Further efforts and appeal by closed friends and relatives of the suspect to grant him bail failed as the complainant and his kinsmen threatened to kill the trader if he was released on bail.
Quoting Vanguard,
"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."
According to Chiedozie, a close relation to the suspect, he argued thus:
“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 our correspondence that the actions of the suspect “were very provocative.”
"…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.”
NHB learnt that relations to the suspect have been working tirelessly to effect his bail while his accusers are insisting that he must necessarily be prosecuted and consequently condemned.
We shall bring you further developments on the story.
Nelson A.Osuala
Is a Blogger & the Associate Editor of negroidhaven.org
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