The Prisons and Civil Rights Development Foundation, an NGO, filed the suit against the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu

The suit with No. CV/1800/2020 filed by the foundation’s counsel, Mr Henry Ebu, alleged that the police is granting the permit to “every Tom, Dick and Harry.

Ebu prayed the court to determine whether by the provision of the “Motor Vehicle Prohibition of Tinted Glass Act, CAP M21, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (LFN 2004), citizens are allowed to use tinted glass without genuine reasons.

The NGO is also asking the court to determine whether citizens are allowed to use and drive vehicle with tinted, shaded, opague or any glasses which disallowed others from seeing the occupants of the said vehicle.

They further asked the court to determine whether by the provisions of Section 4 of the police Act, CAP P-19 and the duties provided thereof, the continuous and random issuance of tinted glass permit to motorist does not amount to a negation of primary duty of the police to safeguard life and properties.

Specifically, the applicant sought five reliefs to justify the suit, said that such act of granting permit was capable of promoting crimes like kidnaping, robbery and other social vices.

He said that, tinted glass permit could only be granted to people on health and security wise, adding that the police was doing the contrary by granting tinted glass permit to so many vehicles.

He also prayed the court an order directing the police to published full pages of editorial in three newspapers to compel the 36 states and FCT Police commissioners to order motorist with factory fitted shades or dark glasses to remove it and replace them with transparent ones.

The NGO also sought for an order directing the respondent (police) to pay the sum of N1 million as the cost of litigation, and a perpetual injunction, restraining the police, it agents from further granting tinted glass permit to motorist as it is causing anxiety in the mind of the pedestrian.

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It was reported that Mustapha, who is facing a N32 billion fraud charge, was re-arrested on Friday, (Aug.14) by the EFCC.

He was re-arrested when he went to the EFCC Office, Ikoyi, Lagos, to reclaim his five wristwatches, one Apple airpod, one iPhone, eight mobile phones and one pair of sunglasses seized from him by the anti-graft agency in 2019.

The visit followed a ruling given by Justice Mohammed Liman on July 24, in which the judge ordered the release of the seized items on the grounds that the EFCC did not list them as exhibits in court.

In the suit filed on his behalf on Tuesday by his counsel, Mr Gboyega Oyewole (SAN), Mustapha is praying the court to declare that his re-arrest and detention by the EFCC was unjustifiable and unlawful.

He is equally urging the court to declare that the continued seizure of the items violated his right to own property under Section 44 of the constitution.

He is praying the court to order the EFCC not only to free him but also to give him back the seized items and pay him N5 million as damages.

A litigation officer in the office of Mustapha’s lawyer, Mr Kayode Adeboye, who swore to an affidavit in support of the application, averred that Mustapha’s arrest was baseless.

He argued that Mustapha had been granted bail by the court and never absconded.

According to Adeboye, in line with the bail conditions, Mustapha had been reporting at the EFCC office fortnightly without defaulting.

However, the spokesman for the EFCC, Mr Dele Oyewale, said that Mustapha’s re-arrest was connected to a fresh set of cyber fraud charges.

It was reported that the court has yet to fix a date to hear Mustapha’s N5 million suit.

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