POLICE CONFIRMED ARREST OF A TRADER FOR NAMING HIS PET DOG BUHARI

Police confirms arrest of Trader for naming
his dog ‘Buhari’
PLEASE READ POLICE REASON FOR ARRESTING
THE TRADER. THE CHANGE WE ASKED FOR IS
ABOUT TO SWALLOW US ALL.
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.”