{"id":28007,"date":"2016-08-24T02:43:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T02:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigerian-arrested-for-naming-dog-after-president\/"},"modified":"2016-08-24T02:43:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T02:43:02","slug":"nigerian-arrested-for-naming-dog-after-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigerian-arrested-for-naming-dog-after-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian arrested for naming dog after President Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A Nigerian man who named his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari and painted the name on both sides of the dog was arrested for breach of the peace.}<\/p>\n<p>Joe Fortemose Chinakwe walked Buhari in an area where support for the president was high, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said they were worried the moved could antagonise people, though he insisted it was meant as a compliment.<\/p>\n<p>He has been granted bail but remains in jail as funds are sought, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chinakwe, 30, said that he named the dog Buhari because he had admired Mr Buhari for many years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I named my beloved pet dog Buhari, who is my hero,&#8221; Mr Chinakwe said. &#8220;My admiration for Buhari started far back when he was a military head of state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>{{Death threats}}<\/p>\n<p>He was inspired to give his dog the name after reading about Mr Buhari&#8217;s fight against corruption, he added.<\/p>\n<p>He later told local media he had received death threats over the perceived slight.<\/p>\n<p>Twitters users reacted to the arrest with a mixture of amusement and concern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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?&#8221; said Reno Omokri.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chinakwe&#8217;s case was adjourned until 19 September.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14491 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_90893565_mediaitem90893564.jpg\" alt=\"President Buhari. The dog&#039;s owner said he was inspired by the president&#039;s &quot;dogged&quot; fight against corruption\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A Nigerian man who named his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari and painted the name on both sides of the dog was arrested for breach of the peace.} Joe Fortemose Chinakwe walked Buhari in an area where support for the president was high, police said. Officers said they were worried the moved could antagonise people, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28007"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28007"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}