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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.” he said.

Mr. 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, Mr. 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.” Mr. 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.”