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General Ibrahim Babangida was infamous for having formulated and forced several unpopular decrees in the Nigerian throat in his eight -year -old domain. At the “evil genius”, which crossed his era of infamy with the cancellation of the presidential elections of 12 June, belongs to the copyright of the equally infamous “motor vehicles (ban on tinted glass) n. 6 of 1991”.
Ironically, in a civil regime managed by a Bola Ahmed Tinubu who fought Babangida for a detention, the Draconian Ibb law was carved out of the Kayode Police inspector Egbetokun to comb the Nigerians from 2 October. From that date, the Nigerians will revive the sleep of the military era to obtain and present certificates for the certificate for the certificate of having been certified to be certified to be certified to be certified to be certified to be certified to be certified to be certified to be certified to be certified to be a certificate of a certificate to be ” the fact that the glasses “. IGP Egbetokun is collecting motorists N14,000 per vehicle to obtain permission. And he will pay his boys from Thursday 2 October to guarantee motorists payment or park.
The plan caused very tumulting at national level. Some warned that with this imminent policy, “Extraordinary” IGP Kayode Egbetokun (Tinubu extended his mandate which should end on September 4, 2024 when the officer turned 60) exceeded his statutory mandate; In addition, he is reversing the country to his dark and draconian history under the military.
To justify their imposition, the police authorities hide behind the only finger of section 3 of the motor vehicles law (prohibition of colored glass). This act came to life under IBB as “motor decree (colorful glass ban) n. 6 of 1991”. This is a military decree! General Babangida formulated the law at a time when Nigeria held the jugular in that notorious season of anomies. Not all laws are a good law and the authorities must have a reason to push this inclined martial law under the carpet in the last 34 years! Now under President Tinubu, Egbetokun has resurrected Godzilla, the king of monsters!
Economy of a colored glass permit
In this season of hyperinflation, you will understand the protest of the people, already disconcerting under the highest price of the fuel they have ever paid, the worst interstat roads that have ever led and the most devalued Naira they have ever spent. It talks about wrong times. One wonders if the police have learned something from the #endsars revolts.
In addition, the tax was set not at N1.000, not at N2.000, not at N5.000, but to a huge n14,000! This reaches 20 percent, a fifth, of the minimum monthly salary of this country of N70,000.
A user X or Twitter with the username “Emir of Ibadan” on 10 May observes: “Making the annual payment is criminal”.
Particularly curious is the indiscriminate coverage of the next regulation. Each of the over 12 million vehicles in the country on the road has windshield windshield and gate glasses and only a few have simple glasses.
To shout in cracks, motorists are already super cubes of payment for documents! Many of these are tautological, repetitive and superfluous.
With the presidency of Tinubu, the amounts that the owners of the vehicles pay on the details have reached the historical maximum. For example, the proof of owned certificates, in the past a one -off documentation has become annual renewable. How do you ask that ownership certificates must be renewed every year even when the property remains unchanged? Recently, did the third party insurance remained suddenly in a hot air balloon of 200 % from N5,000 to N15,000? The driving license expenses, the vehicle license costs have all the wings grown in the last two years. Do not even mention hackney permit in which states and local governments Bay for Blood when vans and trucks pass through their territories. Imagine a truck, a truck or trailer that need one or more documents from each of the 36 States and 774 local governments!
NBA in court
The most lethal and organized opposition of the system so far comes from the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) which has dragged the question to court. The case was assigned. But the Lawyers-Liquids get low votes on one point: their inability to convince the court to impose a status quo ante to the police, an injunction to prevent the policemen from enforcing or asking permits up to the final sentence on the case.
The police exaggerated
Coming from the police forces of a country that does not produce a single vehicle and rather matters all motor vehicles (and glasses), the application of this law will be nothing but absurd and exaggerated. Nigeria that does not produce glasses or vehicles will enchant a poor foreign currency for the nations that produce and sell cars and simple glasses.
Many have wondered if this will not distract the police of a country that envelops itself from a widespread insurrection and insecurity for which the armed forces have not found any solution. The police actually say that the measure will help them fight insecurity.
You really fight insecurity! Cars have boots. The boots hide things with visible eyes. Clearly, don’t we pay for car permits? Are we not simply told to open the cabins so that the contents are inspected? Shouldn’t the same get for colored glasses? In case of doubts about the occupants or content of a vehicle, the police cannot simply ask that, as in the case of the boot, the driver or passenger should close the door glass in approach to the control points?
In addition, as currently framed, the violation of the law takes a fine of N2,000. Yet the police want drivers to get the license for N14,000. Can you see discrepancy and disconnection? The permission authorization for such a large sum means that the regime will make the generation of revenue. The police of no country operates exclusively for the generation of revenue. The police are not business in business. Nor can the force formulate programs to generate revenue for itself or for the government. His budget comes as a first -line charge, such as those of the army and other paramilitary agencies. Police work is an essential service. The government deals with the capital and recurring costs of the police.
Curiously, unlike other government revenues paid through the removed platform, PGI Egbetokun has opened a separate account to keep payments for colored glass authorizations. Na wa or!
Also, where is justice in this agreement? Confiring the strength with this Draconian power means that the complaint, the prosecutor and the police judge turned to one. An executive arm arm suddenly commands the powers of the judiciary and the manager. Oh! This puts the colossal power in the hand of an institution. The writers of our Constitution have deliberately guarded by this monstrosity through the gang of the grund nom in the doctrine of the separation of powers.
What is actually colored glass?
By definition, the colored glass in a car refers to “window glass which is darkened in the factory by adding metal oxides to the glass during production or applying a thin film on the surface of the existing glass after the construction of the car. This treatment offers benefits such as greater privacy, UV protection and reduction of heat …”.
The vehicles made in Europe, America, Asia and in any other place they avoid all simple glasses. The coloring of vehicles for vehicles has become the universal standard to combat the harmful effect of ultraviolet rays (UV). Yet the Nigerian police want citizens to go to simple glasses.
Will the application distinguish between colored, shaded and colorful glasses? Are the color windows the same as colored glasses? IGP Egbetokun could not give a damn. So far, the police advertising campaign behind the implementation of this law has ignored the tone, language and spirit of the law on motor vehicles (prohibition of colored glass). You wonder if the NPF has a legal department! Police professionals interpret it to say that you have to get a permit “if you are driving a car with colorful, shady, colorful or dark glass”.
But this has no support in this aforementioned law. The real law says nothing of the genre. Read the exact formulation:
The federal military government decrees as follows:
1. (1) With the authorization of the appropriate authority designated for the purposes of this decree and for a good cause that can be determined from time to time by the appropriate authority, no person must cause any glass mounted on a motor vehicle
(a) colored; OR
(b) shaded; OR
(c) slightly colored; or dense
(d) dark; OR
(e) treated in any other way,
so that people or objects in the motor vehicle are made dark or invisible.
Clearly, he says: “No person must cause the glass model on a motor vehicle”, etc. The cause of the word remains the operational denominator. Have you caused the coloring of your vehicle’s glasses? Obviously, what the law frowns the eyebrows is the owner of the vehicle that makes the more mile, or making an extra effort, to shade, color, darken or dye the glass of his vehicle. If the shadow or the coloring is following, you don’t have a business to get a permit. But who will tell the Nigerian policeman on hunting off-pinin glasses from October 2nd?
The official explanation of that law extends it as: “An act to prohibit coloring or treatment in any other way in which any glass mounted in a motor vehicle in order to make people in the vehicle dark or invisible”. Note the word forbidden. This clearly exempts or originally exempted shaded and colorful glasses. The law aims to prevent or licensed the coloring of vehicles by the owners who “deliberately” choose. Connotation that this coloring action was voluntary, by choice and a superfluous action for luxurious purposes.
So why do Igp Egbetokun wants to make it a general law? Why will he erroneously apply a reserved law not for general motorists but the few owners who choose to glue the st or this plan is flying on the wings of greed and avarice guided by a superlative dose of impunity?
The judiciary, the legislator and the public must oppose the reckless wickedness of the IGP to resurrect and generalize a Draconian law originally invented by the “evil genius” Babangida.
Oboagwina is an author, Journal
St Editore, reachable away: Fobagwina@gmail.com
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