Police defend legality of tinted-glass permit policy amid NBA lawsuit

Abuja — The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has defended the legality of its tinted-glass licence policy, pursuing reports that the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has taken the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, to tribunal implicit the matter.

In a connection issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, connected Friday successful Abuja, the NPF described claims that the licence strategy was unlawful and unconstitutional arsenic “untrue and misleading.”

The connection cited Section 2(3a) of the Motor Vehicles (Prohibition of Tinted Glass) Act, 2004, which empowers the IGP oregon a delegated serviceman to assistance oregon o.k. tinted-glass permits. It further referenced Section 1(2) of the aforesaid Act, which requires applicants to amusement valid reasons—such arsenic wellness oregon security—before support tin beryllium granted.

“The essence of this regularisation is accordant with the halfway mandate of the Police to forestall crimes, arsenic the licence is simply a captious instrumentality for curbing convulsive crimes specified arsenic kidnapping, equipped robbery, terrorism, and 1 accidental operations,” the connection read.

The Force besides clarified that charges attached to the permits are “purely processing fees” for maintaining the integer infrastructure deployed to supply the service. According to Hundeyin, this aligns with Sections 26(e) and (f) of the Nigeria Police Act, 2020, which empowers the Police to render specialised services to the nationalist astatine a fee.

Highlighting its caller successes, the Police said the Electronic Central Motor Registry (e-CMR) has enabled the tracing and betterment of galore stolen vehicles nationwide, reinforcing the benefits of modernised specialised services.

Reiterating the Force’s position, IGP Egbetokun assured Nigerians of the Police’s committedness to professionalism, transparency, and respect for the regularisation of law.

“The Inspector-General of Police reiterates the unflinching committedness of the Nigeria Police Force to upholding the regularisation of instrumentality and safeguarding the cardinal rights of each Nigerians,” the connection concluded.

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