The Magistrate Court In Ogun State, on Wednesday, 18th January 2017, has re-adjourned the case of Mr Joachim Chinakwe Iroko who was arrested back in 2015 for allegedly naming his pet dog ‘Buhari’.
The trial was adjourned because of the unavailability of presiding Magistrate, P. J. Ojikutu who was said to be attending a screening exercise.
The case has been adjourned to the 20th March 2017 for hearing of the Motion on Notice challenging the jurisdiction of the court and the competence of the charge.
This bit of story had trended back then in 2015 when Buhari just started his administration, but it appears the case is still very much alive almost two years later.
After he was arrested and detained, he was subsequently arraigned before a Sango Magistrate Court, Ogun State on August 22, for conduct likely to cause a breach of public peace.
The charged document stated that the trader was said to have behaved himself in a manner probably to cause breach of peace by naming his dog Buhari and parading same at Hausa section of Ketere market in Sango area and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 249 (d) of Criminal Code of Laws of Ogun State of Nigeria, 2016.
