“How illegal foreigner conspired with Hausa policeman to jail me” – Buhari dog owner
Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, 30, is not a happy man. He couldn’t believe the police would waste vital state resources to arrest and detain him over “nothing”.
Joe bought a dog about a year ago and named it “Buhari”. He also inscribed the named on both sides of the dog’s body. Someone reported him to the police and he was arrested and denied bail.
He was released after spending three days in police cell. The angry Ogun State trader left the Eleweran Police Headquarters, Abeokuta, on Tuesday around 5pm.
And 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 connived with Musa, a police sergeant from the northern part of Nigeria, who works at Sango Police Division to humiliate me.
“Worse still, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) there did not help matters as he refused to entertain any plea from me after I was arrested that Saturday night. He simply ordered his men to throw me into the cell.
“I did not commit any offence. I named my beloved pet dog Buhari, who is my hero. My admiration for Buhari started far back when he was a military head of state.
“It continued till date that he is a civilian president. After reading his dogged fight against corruption, which is like a canker worm eating into the very existence of this country, I solely decided to rename my beloved dog after him.
“I did not know that I was committing an offence for admiring Buhari.”
“I was intimidated and thrown inside the cell with hardened criminals for about three days. While I was there, the complainant from Niger Republic and Sergeant Musa kept on taunting me saying people from my part of the country are trouble makers and that after detaining me, they would throw me into prison where I will die unsung.
”Even when my wife came with our baby on her back, they stopped her from giving me food. One of my friends that came to see me was also maltreated.
“While taking me to Eleweran the next day, they handcuffed and chained me together with that my friend.
“Fortunately, when we got to police headquarters, both the Commissioner of Police and other officers were angry with their colleagues at Sango-Ota.
”They were wondering loudly why I was brought to the headquarters over such a minor case. It’s very unfortunate that I have to be so humiliated in my own country because of the antics of a foreigner in connivance with my brother from the North.”
By the way, where is that “Buhari” dog? The police said Joe secretly ordered his friends to kill and eat it so it won’t be used as evidence in court..
