A Federal Excessive Courtroom in Warri, Delta State, on Friday ordered the Nigeria Police Drive and the Inspector-Normal of police (IGP) to droop the enforcement of the tinted glass allow throughout the nation.
Inibehe Effiong, a human rights lawyer, disclosed this in a submit on X.
The court docket ordered the police and the IGP to keep up the established order and “respect judicial processes pending additional proceedings within the matter.”
The court docket issued the interim order throughout a listening to in Go well with No. FHC/WR/CS/103/2025 instituted by John Aikpokpo-Martins in opposition to the IGP and the police.
Mr Aikpokpo-Martins, a lawyer, approached the court docket to problem the legality of the brand new tinted allow enforcement.
Kunle Edun, SAN, who led the petitioner’s authorized workforce, stated that “the directive is a significant step in making certain that the rule of legislation is upheld whereas the substantive points within the case are being decided.”
Related go well with by NBA
The Nigerian Bar Affiliation (NBA) instituted a go well with in opposition to the IGP on 5 September over the tinted glass allow coverage, describing it as illegal and a violation of Nigerians’ elementary rights.
Responding to the NBA, Benjamin Hundeyin, the pressure spokesperson, said the NBA’s place was deceptive and “an try and forged aspersions on the picture, integrity, and lawful operations of the pressure”.
In its 1 October letter to the IGP, the NBA identified that the legality of the tinted glass coverage is a topic of litigation at a Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja. The NBA informed the IGP that “the Nigeria Police, as a legislation enforcement company, ought to know higher to not be lawless.”
The enforcement of the tinted glass allow was initially billed to take off on 1 June, however was shifted to 2 October.
