The Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr Mohammed Abubakar, has said.
that obtaining permit for the use of vehicles with tinted glasses is
absolutely free.
Speaking on Friday at a meeting with Assistant Inspectors-General of
Police in charge of the 12 zonal commands in Nigeria, Abubakar said the
process of “obtaining tinted glass permit is free of charge, and there
is no amount of money written there for anybody to pay.”
According to hiim., “Motorists should not allow any policeman,
anywhere to subject them to paying charges that are not officially,
legally and legitimately stated.”
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reported that the clarification of
the IG was against the backdrop of renewed clampdown on motorists
driving vehicles with tinted glasses nationwide.
Abubakar, however, said that those complaining about the clampdown
were not sincere as they know that “by all standards they do not deserve
to have tinted glass vehicles’’.
He said that the police would enforce the ban as it was meant for the good of all Nigerians.
The police boss said that to avoid abuse in the granting of the
permit, the law only authorised the IG to issue it without delegating
such power to commands commissioners of police.
“Do you know that most criminals use tinted vehicles as hideout, to
carry arms and ammunition, EIDs, to throw bombs on innocent worshippers
in churches and mosques and other places? he asked. “We cannot continue to fold our hands and allow criminality to take place.”
“Tell me what a commercial vehicle is doing with tinted glass, tell
me what an ordinary Nigerian who has nothing to hide is doing with
tinted glass.”
“We appeal to Nigerians to understand this, that the essence of doing
what we are doing is to ensure that people are safe and that innocent
people are not just unnecessarily attack,’’ he said. The IG said that criminal elements such as kidnappers, armed robbers
and terrorists use vehicle with tinted glasses to commit crimes,
stressing that the police would not allow that to continue. The meeting was to review security challenges, including terrorism,
kidnapping, cultism and communal clashes in parts of the country in
order to strategise on how to address the challenges. Individuals having vehicles with tinted glasses have been in dilemma
over the police clampdown, saying that their vehicles came with
factory-fitted tinted glasses. Vehicle owners say the police charge between N10,000 and N50,000 to
grant the tinted permits, wondering whether the money actually goes into
the coffers of the Federal Government.
Source: Daily Post Online.
HBC: This Oga at the top Knows his Men very very well. Well done Oga IG.
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