A Delta State High Court in Orerokpe has issued an injunction stopping the Nigerian Police from resuming the enforcement of the tinted glass permit policy nationwide.
The court, presided over by Justice Joe Egwu, also barred police from harassing, arresting, or extorting citizens over the policy.
The injunction follows a suit by a Nigerian, Mr. Israel Joe, and will subsist pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.
The court also restrained police from using a private contractor’s account, Parkway Projects Account, for government business.
This order halts the police’s announced resumption of tinted glass permit enforcement on January 2, 2026.
The plaintiff was represented by Mr. Kunle Edun, SAN and many other lawyers.
The judge while delivering verdict said: “An order of interim injunction restraining the 1st and 2nd respondents, their officers, men, agents, privies and/or contractors from implementing, enforcing or further implementing/enforcing the Tinted Glass Permit Policy scheduled to commence on January 2, 2026, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive application in this suit.
“An order of interim injunction restraining the 1st and 2nd respondents, their officers, men, agents, privies and/or contractors from stopping, harassing, arresting, detaining or extorting citizens/motorists under the guise of enforcing the Tinted Glass Permit Policy, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive application in this suit.
“An order of interim injunction restraining the 1st and 2nd respondents, their officers, men, agents, privies and/or contractors from continuing to use the Parkway Projects Account (a private contractor’s account) to conduct any government business, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive application in this suit.
“An order for substituted service on the 1st and 2nd respondents through the 3rd respondent at the Delta State Police Command Headquarters, Asaba, and for such service to be deemed good and proper service.”
