– The
international media has given its version of the arrest of the man who named
his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari because he admires him a lot.
– Some of
them claim that the police was overzealous in its handling of the case while
others say that Chinakwe committed the act in a place where the president was
popular
– The police
says it arrested and charged Chinakwe for a provocative action that could
disturb the peace.
The international media have reacted to reports about
Joachim Chinakwe, who was arrested after naming his dog Buhari.
Buzzfeed
reports that the ‘Buhari dog’ saga deteriorated into what it presently is
because of Chinakwe’s feud with a neighbour and the police’s overzealousness.
It wrote: “Thirty-year-old Nigerian trader Joachim Chinakwe is a big fan of his
country’s current head of state, Muhammadu Buhari. So much so that, he says, he
recently decided to name his pet dog after the president.
“Unfortunately,
things got weird for Chinakwe after a feud with a neighbor and the police’s
overzealousness.”
Buzzfeed’s
report on the dog named Buhari To Reuters, the police is holding Chinakwe
because it believes that his action could breach the peace of the nation.
“His
action is provocative and capable of breaching the peace, as you know the
volatility of Nigeria now,” Reuters quoted Ogun police spokesperson, Abimbola
Oyeyemi as saying.
The international news agency rounded of its report with the
remark that “tensions sometimes erupt between northerners, who are Muslims, and
people from the predominantly Christian south. Buhari is a Muslim from the
north.”
Buhari’s
version of the report on the dog named Buhari On its part, the British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) analysed Twitter reactions to the report and
noted that “Twitters users reacted to the arrest with a mixture of amusement
and concern.”
It then went on to quote a tweet from former aide to
ex-president, Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, which queried, “If we keep quiet
when they arrest the man who named his dog Buhari who will talk for us when
they arrest us for criticizing the real Buhari?”
BBC’s report
on the dog named Buhari On its own part,
New York
Times hinted in its report that Chinakwe got into trouble for doing what he did
in a place where the president is popular. “A man who wrote the name of
Nigeria’s president on his dog and paraded the pet in an area where the leader
is popular has been charged with breaking the peace.
“Police said they arrested
Joachim Chinakwe after a neighbor complained that the display in southwestern
Ogun state was provocative.” New York Times’ report on the dog named Buhari.
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