Government set to enforce ban on tinted vehicles.
The Federal Government has ordered the police to enforce the law prohibiting use of tinted vehicles on Nigerian roads.
The Minister of Police Affairs, Humphrey Abah revealed this at a press conference in Abuja, "with effect from February 28, 2011, owners of tinted vehicles would be made to remove them by policemen on the spot, CAP M21, Motor vehicle prohibiting tinted glass Act, forbids use of heavily filmed cars.
Abah said, the Federal Road Safety Corps and Road Traffic Services personnel are to assist the police in enforcing the law, and cars with factory-fitted tinted glasses are exempted from the directive.
With this new directive ,only the President, his vice, governors, the Senate President, his deputy and majority leader as well as the Speaker, House of Representatives are permitted to use tinted glasses in the country.
The ministry boss warned that "unauthorised use of siren will attract severe sanction as such vehicles will be confiscated, adding that owners of vehicles with foreign numbers have two weeks to register them or remove them from the road.
As part of the enforcement of the new law, John Haruna, the FCT Police Commissioner, revealed that "his men had arrested and arraigned drivers of tinted cars, most of which belonged to highly placed people.
Haruna maintained that "the existing taskforce would be enlarged with personnel of the State Security Service, Civil Defence Corps, police and the military to enforce the ministerial directive.
The Federal Government has ordered the police to enforce the law prohibiting use of tinted vehicles on Nigerian roads.
The Minister of Police Affairs, Humphrey Abah revealed this at a press conference in Abuja, "with effect from February 28, 2011, owners of tinted vehicles would be made to remove them by policemen on the spot, CAP M21, Motor vehicle prohibiting tinted glass Act, forbids use of heavily filmed cars.
Abah said, the Federal Road Safety Corps and Road Traffic Services personnel are to assist the police in enforcing the law, and cars with factory-fitted tinted glasses are exempted from the directive.
With this new directive ,only the President, his vice, governors, the Senate President, his deputy and majority leader as well as the Speaker, House of Representatives are permitted to use tinted glasses in the country.
The ministry boss warned that "unauthorised use of siren will attract severe sanction as such vehicles will be confiscated, adding that owners of vehicles with foreign numbers have two weeks to register them or remove them from the road.
As part of the enforcement of the new law, John Haruna, the FCT Police Commissioner, revealed that "his men had arrested and arraigned drivers of tinted cars, most of which belonged to highly placed people.
Haruna maintained that "the existing taskforce would be enlarged with personnel of the State Security Service, Civil Defence Corps, police and the military to enforce the ministerial directive.
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