The Sango Ota Chief
Magistrate Court, on Tuesday, struck out the case against Mr. Joachim
Iroko, the trader accused of threatening public peace by naming his dog
‘Buhari’.
Mr. Iroko was arrested
in August 2016, detained and subsequently charged to court by the
Nigeria Police Force for naming his dog ‘Buhari’.
The suit was
dismissed following serial failure by the prosecution to present
witnesses and the continued absence of the nominal complainant, who
claimed that Mr Iroko named his dog ‘Buhari’, after his father.
The dismissal was sequel to an application
by the defendant’s lawyers that the case is struck out for want of
diligent prosecution.
Mr. O. O. Adebo, the Magistrate, granted
the application and the case was duly struck-out, leaving Mr. Iroko to
walk home a free man
One of the defendant’s lawyers, Mr. Inibehe
Effiong, told SaharaReporters that he warned the Police from the
beginning that they had no case against Mr.Iroko and that there was no
legal basis for his arrest, detention, and prosecution on account of a
conduct that did not harm and could not have harmed anybody.
Edited from Sahara Reporters