Trader Who Named Dog Buhari Walks Out Of Court A Free Man

A lawsuit against a trader who named his dog Buhari has been struck out by an Ogun State magistrate court.

Recall that Joachim Iroko, the 42-year-old trader, was arrested on Monday, August 22, 2016 and subsequently charged to court, after a neighbour reported him to the police for reportedly naming his dog after Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari.

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The acting Police spokesman in Ogun state, Abimbola Oyeyemi had at the time defended Iroko’s arrest saying, “Such thing can cause serious breach of the peace and ethnic or religious unrest,”

Oyeyemi added that, “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.”

But Magistrate O. O Adebo, on Tuesday, freed Iroko as the plaintiffs failed to show up to defend the case against the trader.

The trader was defended free of charge by Human right lawyers Ebun-olu Adegboruwa and Inibehe Effiong.

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