Chinakwe was arrested after one of his neighbours of Northern extraction complained bitterly that he named his dog after his father, Alhaji Buhari.
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The Assistant Inspector-General of Police for the Zone II Command Headquarters in Lagos, Abdulmajid Ali, on Saturday said the case files of a man alleged to have named his dog “Buhari” should be transferred to his desk with immediate effect.
This trader lives in Ogun State, Sango-Ota, Omikunle Street. The charge will be prepared here and he will be arraigned at Sango Magistrate Court on Monday.
According to the Nigerian media, Chinakwe told his friend to kill the dog and eat the meat as a way of getting rid of evidence in the case against him.
It was also reported that the successive calls to Chinakwe’s friends and relatives for the police to grant him bail were not possible, as the applicant and his family threatened to murder the man, if police released him on bail.
I named it after someone I admired. You know such thing can cause serious breach of the peace and ethnic or religious unrest. Complainant from Niger Republic Narrating his ordeal, Chinakwe said “It is annoying because the complainant is from Niger Republic and I am sure he is one of those illegal aliens in this country”. He told that he committed no crime and he is the victim because of staying in police for three days. After reading his dogged fight against corruption, which is like a canker worm eating into the very existence of this country, I exclusively made a decision to rename my beloved dog which I called Buhari, after him. I did not know that I was committing an offence for admiring Buhari.
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However, security forces claimed Chinakwe’s actions were provocative.
