Tinted Glass Permit: NBA fumes as police impound vehicle of judge

…warns IGP of contempt, says we’ll invoke powers of court

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri

ABUJA– The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has written the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Kayode Egbetokun, asking him to instantly halt the nationwide enforcement of the tinted solid permit.

The ineligible body, successful the missive it served the IGP connected Thursday, drew his attraction to the information that issues surrounding the legality of the tinted solid policy, is already pending earlier the Federal High Court successful Abuja, informing that “the Nigeria Police, arsenic a instrumentality enforcement agency, should cognize amended not to beryllium lawless.”

This came connected a time that constabulary officers who were connected the thoroughfare to enforce the orders of the Assistant Inspector-General, AIG, Zone 5, connected tinted solid permit, allegedly impounded a conveyance belonging to a justice of the National Industrial Court, NIC, successful Delta State.

Reacting to the development, the NBA, done the Chairman of its Special Public Interest Litigation Committee, NBA-SPIDEL, Mr. Kunle Edun, SAN, told Vanguard that quality rights committees of the 130 branches of the relation person been activated to connection escaped ineligible services to motorists.

He said: “We shall invoke the powers of the Court to guarantee that the Nigeria Police Force does not trample connected the rights of Nigerians. Any national that is harrassed by the Police successful the purported enforcement of the amerciable tinted solid licence by the Police should beryllium escaped to interaction immoderate of the NBA branches.

“The Human Rights Committees of the 130 branches of the NBA successful Nigeria are acceptable to connection pro bono services to anyone that is harrassed.

“It has been estimated that the Police whitethorn make astatine slightest N3billion wrong a period from monies that volition beryllium collected, thus, turning the Police into a revenue- generating bureau of the Federal authorities alternatively of focusing connected the much superior issues crime.

“The substance is successful Court and the Nigeria Police arsenic a instrumentality enforce should cognize amended not to beryllium lawless. Nigeria belongs to each of america and the Police should debar thing that volition provoke the members of the public.”

Likewise, the NBA which is the umbrella assemblage of ineligible practitioners successful the country, successful its missive to the IGP, reminded him of a erstwhile correspondence dated September 25, which invited his aattention to the pending suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1821, 2025.

“However, contempt the information that your bully bureau has been served with beforehand copies of the Originating Summons and Motion connected Notice for injunction, determination person been respective statements from the Public Relations Department of the Nigeria Police Force peculiarly authored by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin and immoderate authorities constabulary commands crossed the country, suggesting, albeit precise worrisomely, that the Nigeria Police Force would proceed to commence enforcement of the tinted solid licence argumentation time the 2nd October 2025.

“Kindly licence america to restate the settled and ubiquitous presumption of the instrumentality that a enactment served with an Originating Process and particularly a Motion connected Notice for Interlocutory Injunction has a work imposed connected him by instrumentality to support the presumption quo ante bellum until the lawsuit is determined by the tribunal 1 mode oregon the other.

“In bid words, the enactment connected whom a question for injunction has been served has a work to support the authorities of things the mode they were astatine the clip helium was served with the question successful bid to not foist a concern of helplessness connected the court.”

Continuing, the NBA, which cited respective ineligible authorities, stated: “Having respect to this supra presumption of the instrumentality arsenic magisterially laid down by the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, it is precise wide that the pendency of Suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/1821/2025 should automatically enactment a halt to the enforcement of the tinted solid licence argumentation pending the clip erstwhile the tribunal would get astatine a determination connected the questions raised for determination successful the Originating Summons, 1 mode oregon the other.

“Consequently, we admonish your bully bureau to let the regularisation of instrumentality to prevail by halting immoderate further effort to enforce a argumentation whose legality is simply a taxable for judicial determination.

“The NBA is alert of a contemptuous property merchandise issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin presenting the Nigeria Police Force arsenic obstinately proceeding with the enforcement of the argumentation contempt the pendency successful tribunal of the suit cha...