Tinted Glasses Land Four In Jail

A Karu Senior Magistrates’ Court last Tuesday sentenced four men to two months imprisonment each for illegal use of tinted glasses on their vehicles.

The sentence came after Abbas Bello, Isa Mohammed, Wale Adeninto and Joseph Ogbonna pleaded guilty to the one-count charge preferred against them under Section 2 (D) of the Road Traffic Act.

Senior Magistrate Bashir Alkali, who passed the sentence, however, gave the convicts an option of N5,000 fine each.

During the one-day trial, the Police Prosecutor, Mr Eze Ugwuchukwu, told the court that the convicts were arrested by a police patrol team on April 4, in different parts of Abuja.

Ugwuchukwu said that Mohammed, Adeninto and Ogbonna were each arrested with a Toyota Sienna car with registration numbers BT 247 GWA, ABC 536 AE and BWR 270 AG, respectively.

The prosecutor added that the fourth convict, Bello, was arrested with an unregistered Infinity Jeep also with tinted glasses.

After listening to the charge, the four men, who were arraigned together, pleaded guilty.

It would be recalled recalls that the police had in March re-issued the warning to motorists against the use of tinted glasses with a threat to prosecute offenders.

In a March 21 statement by its spokesman, Mr Frank Mba, the police said the measure was part of efforts to address the security challenges in the country.