Police Re-Arrest Man Who Named His Dog Buhari
The Ogun State Police Command, on Friday, rearrested Mr. Joe Chinakwe, the man who named his pet dog Buhari, stating that he would be arraigned in court today, Monday.
Chinakwe, 30, who was released few days ago after the intervention of the Serkin Hausa and President-General of non-indigenes in the state, was picked up again.
According to the police, the suspect’s action was capable of provoking an ethnoreligious crisis.
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The state’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed this said that Chinakwe’s re-arrest was to prevent the state from being plunged into religious and ethnic crisis, adding that the suspect is been held at the Criminal Investigation Department of the command.
His words” “The man is here with us. He is at the Criminal Investigation Department. The charge will be prepared here and he will be arraigned at Sango Magistrate Court on Monday. “He is going to court on Monday because what he did was highly provocative.
“It can cause an ethnic and religious crisis. We have to be proactive, we cannot fold our arms and allow the state to be plunged into crisis.”
He added that the arrest was a way to protect the suspect because the complainant and his sympathizers have threatened to kill him.
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“In fact, the arrest was made to save the suspect’s life because the complainant and his group have threatened to kill him if he comes back and this may trigger violence,” he said.
