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Dog Named Buhari: The Other Reason by Nobody: 1:06pm On Aug 31, 2016
No name is particular to anybody. This is so because the name you bear is being answered by someone else somewhere. So nobody should claim proprietary ownership to a particular name. Even as this is so said there are some conditions which shows particularity. This might be emphasized by circumstances abounding in a nation which points a particular name to an individual, and this can be alluded by governance, religion, or cultural affiliation.


A perceived offence committed by naming a dog after the first name of a sitting president leading to incarceration of the person involved was recently the talk of many Nigerians until he was released from prison cushttp://champsbtmh..com/2016/08/dog-named-buhari-here-is-other-reason.htmltody. Now one begin to asked whether the action of the state by proxy is justified or necessitated. I think in a time like this sensitivity is a thing to taken serious. That is the guideline backing the decision of the police. Though the implication sent misinterpretations. However, I tend to make somewhat complete deviation from the dog naming saga. This may unlikely consider another perspective to the action and counteraction.

This present dispensation has left many to a resort of different things. In admiration, appraisal or displeasure, people have settled on a guise to express their feelings. And a shocking one came when a dog was named Buhari, which was done in the most conspicuous of ways. You don't need one to tell you what the name of the dog is. Before, when you sees a dog, even as you are compared by its beauty or harshness to know what it is called, you got to ask for it name. But now I can't really say whether the recent happening is a trend surfacing due to the current economic situation, which has nonetheless left the last word of every talk about the economy in the name of the President. However, Joachim Chinakwe claimed to do it in likeness of his mentor, President Muhammadu Buhari. But this sort of appreciation is demeaning and goes to speak bad than tell of good. When something grossly is not right, other things will follow suit. Guess that is how the innocent dog got a name too big for it to bear. Chinakwe, the dog owner could not even make an easy bail to his arrest. Maybe the true motive to his action and subsequent release from prison custody is as a result of the prevailing economic conditions. Now imagine if the daily meal of the owner is affected, the ration of the dog will be reduced. And then the dog barely barks. If approached by any unwanted person hardly is there is a chase. And the owner shook his head and gave it a strong name, due to the dog's changed behaviour. It is not the dog's fault.

The name given to the dog can not really be judged to be a bad idea. Already it is a popular name made known by this current administration, where the dog is a part and parcel of all that transpires. Challenges thrust upon the owner comes invariably upon the dog. This is not by default but as a result of the government not living up to terms. We had taken the APC government by their words. We wanted a change, not the type where things will begin to make people to commit some nonsense acts. APC saw the country and promises better and bigger, but as days comes we dare not say it is going worse and smaller. Their words in campaigns had no delay in fixing things, meticulously prompt and Nigerians just needed that change. Just like some type of game where the spectators sees it all, no fault is hidden from their eyes then. Now they got the chance to make play on the political pitch and it seems like these guys are learning the game. When the other people had been there, it is like they are making no play at all. Now you are there, please play well and let people applaud you rather than give names. You just need to make that great change, APC. A concrete decision is yet to be made to make people sense an enjoyable change. It is believed the problems bedevilling the country is seen from the onset, so being in power things should be rectified. Time should not be wasted any longer, after all, precious time was taken in selecting the best team members to form the cabinet. Now is the time to fulfill promises, not the one that people are left to be giving dogs names for whatever guise.

Inasmuch as I do not support the naming a dog using the President's name, I felt nothing wrong in the act committed. It only generated controversy because a conventional procedure is not followed. Somebody can say there is no such thing as a conventional procedure. You are right and likely wrong. And then somebody posited that people are doing tattoo, so the dog's own is akin to that. Well, that's another tale. Making a name that is self indicative on a dog's body under a precondition where stability could easily be affected has provocative elements in its entirety. The message with regard the name-thing could be well passed, but the feelings it sent maybe ill conceived. Thus it is a generation of some kind of unintended troubles. If the normal process of name calling of dog is mastered on it(the dog), it would have seemed natural that a dog bears the same name as a renowned individual, and there would not have being some misunderstanding in the first instance.

It is an admiration of a mentor-president that warranted the action of such name on the dog as declared by Chinakwe. I begged to think otherwise. The action being done, could be a pointer that the APC led government is yet to stepped-up the game for a real change better than or matching the one preached that enticed all into voting for them. Inasmuch as we do not take the government for a magician, they should not leave people with an option of giving dogs exalted names for whatever reasons.

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