FCT police has given two weeks to motorists with factory-fitted tints to remove them or face prosecution.
The FCT commissioner of police Femi Ogunbayode said: "Except with the permission of the appropriate authority which is the Inspector General of police, who is designated for the purposes of this Act and for such good cause as may be determined from time to time by the appropriate authority, the permission is granted in two circumstances-on medical ground (those with sight problems) and for security reasons.
"No person shall cause any glass fitted on a motor vehicle to be tinted, shaded, coloured lightly or thickly, darkened or treated in any way," he stressed.
"It shall be the duty of the buyer, done or importer of a motor vehicle with tinted, shaded, coloured, darkened or treated glass to change all the glass within a period of 14 days from the date of arrival in Nigeria or date of purchase (whichever is applicable in each circumstance)," the CP said.
He said violators are liable to a fine of N2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Na wa o. Which kain law be this one sef? Abeg make una reduce the port duties and all the abnormalities / wickedness that happens there so that cost of purchasing cars can come down
ReplyDeleteyou dey crase for your head, where and how do you expect us to remove the factory tinted glasses, 90% of cars in Nigeria today have factory tinted glasses so you expect all of them to be removed by who? where will you get the replacement? i can see you now have no job to do but to create jobs for your men who will capitalize on this to embarrass and extort money from Nigerians on the road.
ReplyDeleteGo out and ensure there is peace every where and not to look out for tinted cars you want to extort money from.
shameless commissioner.
No comment but I hope this is applicable to everyone we shld b treated equally. Meanwhile wats d reason for dis?cos d criminals r in higher places! They knw demselves. Abeg let us hear word jor. Opps I said no comment I forgot hehehe
ReplyDeleteCan d police please tell us where factory-fitted windows be obtained for say...a '98 model honda CRV dat isn't in production anymore....besides is dis wat d IGP shld be making noise abt??? Police recruits at Police College Ikeja are living like prisoners in a concentration camp,b4 being unleashed on d populace as half-baked,illiterate,angry gun-weilding n trigger-happy elements dat are rdy to shoot anybdy over N20...a pqregnant woman was killed by such a "policeman" abt 2 wks ago...does d IGP not see hw shabbily-dressed his men are on d roads,some even put on bathroom slippers,yet d kenny martins n tafa baloguns of dis world have fed fat on police funds..but I digress...nw will d police actually impound a car carrying a serving permanent secretary or even an LGA chairman whose windows are blackened (not tinted o)? Cos I dnt think their offices automatically gives dem d permit to tint their car windows...its just a lack of purpose dats their problem...robberies,kidnappings,killings (even of policemen) are daily occurences yet its tinted windows of ordinary citizens dat is giving dem headaches...oga olopa abeg sir
ReplyDeleteI guess the police in general and the IGP in particular have lost focus and control of crime in this country. They have failed the entire nation on their primary assignment of protecting lives and properties. As usual they want to desend on the common citizen to take excuses for their failures. Somebody should please tell us if all the attacks by the Bokos on the police stations and other public places both by day and night are done with tinted glass cars only. Why must there be one law or the other to increase the sufferings of the poor mases of this nation. where did IGP and co ever think we are going to get enough plain car glasses to replace all tinted car glasses in circulation. Is this not another plan by the high and mighty to draw a class distinction to deprive the less previleged masses of their little comfort in their hard earned cars. Pls the national law makers should interven into this selfish law. Did they consider the cost of replacing these glasses (if they can even be found). This will also disfigure the cars because not all technicians has the required competence to remove and fix these glasses. Police have already started extorting money from the public even b4 the law comes into effect. I was extorted 8000 naira a week ago on this draconian law. The Govt. should please try to make life a little bearable for the citizenry. We already have enough troubles on our hands in this country to contend with for them to add more into it. PLEASE WE NEED SOS FROM LAW MAKERS.
ReplyDeleteI guess the police in general and the IGP in particular have lost focus and control of crime in this country. They have failed the entire nation on their primary assignment of protecting lives and properties. As usual they want to desend on the common citizen to take excuses for their failures. Somebody should please tell us if all the attacks by the Bokos on the police stations and other public places both by day and night are done with tinted glass cars only. Why must there be one law or the other to increase the sufferings of the poor mases of this nation. where did IGP and co ever think we are going to get enough plain car glasses to replace all tinted car glasses in circulation. Is this not another plan by the high and mighty to draw a class distinction to deprive the less previleged masses of their little comfort in their hard earned cars. Pls the national law makers should interven into this selfish law. Did they consider the cost of replacing these glasses (if they can even be found). This will also disfigure the cars because not all technicians has the required competence to remove and fix these glasses. Police have already started extorting money from the public even b4 the law comes into effect. I was extorted 8000 naira a week ago on this draconian law. The Govt. should please try to make life a little bearable for the citizenry. We already have enough troubles on our hands in this country to contend with for them to add more into it. PLEASE WE NEED SOS FROM LAW MAKERS.
ReplyDeletefor me, what is good for the goose is equally good for the gander; the Nigerian Police is beginning to fraudulently impose irrelevant measures that will empower their idle and half baked officers to vent their self recrimination on the Nigerian Citizen. this should be curbed by the FGN or they will promote chaos as most of the millennium cars imported and used in this country today come with factory tints that cant be removed and replacements is not near fetched and will possibly attract extra burden..
ReplyDeleteThe Commissioner of police is clueless. Seems he has got nothing to do. How can someone in his right senses impose such a law ? Does he know how many Nigerians have such cars ? where would we find the replacements or is he going to provide the replacements free ? He is simply sick and needs to get medical help !!! Let the Police concentrate on their primary assignment which is "Protection of lives and properties of the Citizenry"
ReplyDeleteThis law is not tenable in any developing or developed nation.Those manufacturing vehicles include tinted glass to shield passengers from solar radiation and enhance better vision when under intense sunlight. Our Police force need to be better informed about factory tinted auto glass which is usually as a result of product research and development. If the law is against those sticking dark shields inform of tint on their vehicles (which is ill informed anyway), it will be justified, but to ban factory fitted tint glass on Nigerian road when we do not even manufacture any,is a crazy idea. Our Senate and House of Representative Members have a duty to stop the Nigerian Police from embarking on this Extortion Laden Drive of stopping innocent citizens on flimsy reason of driving a vehicle with Factory Fitted Tinted Glass.We are no more in the Stone Age.
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