Ogun State Police Command has warned that anyone caught driving an unregistered car or motorcycle will be dealt with and the car or motorcycle will be impounded.
It also warned that the owner would be prosecuted.
The warning followed the killing of a polytechnic lecturer in Ogun State by suspected hired assassins who operated with an unregistered car.
In addition, the police advised that owners of vehicles with factory fitted tinted glasses should approach the command’s department of operations for tinted permit certificate, while those using artificial tinted glasses should remove them forthwith or face prosecution.
The warning was made in a statement issued on Thursday by the spokesman of the police in Ogun State, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi.
The statement reads:
Ogun State Police Command has observed with great concern the reckless usage of unregistered vehicles and motorcycles across the state and the rate at which they are being used to carry out heinous crimes. The most recent coincidence was the assassination of an ICT lecturer who was blocked at Itori area by gunmen using unregistered Lexus jeep.
In view of this, the command hereby warns that anybody caught driving an unregistered car or motorcycle will be dealt with and the car or motorcycle will be impounded while the owner will be prosecuted.
Similarly, owners of vehicles with factory fitted tinted glasses are advised to approach the command’s department of operations for tinted permit certificate, while those using artificial tinted glasses are advised in their own interest to remove them forthwith or face prosecution.
Meanwhile, Area Commanders and DPOs throughout the state have been directed to clamp down on those plying the roads with unregistered vehicles and motorcycles, and vehicles with tinted glasses without permit.
As an organisation saddled with constitutional responsibility of protection of life and property, the command will not fold its arms while criminally minded individuals makes life difficult for good people of the state. The command will therefore do everything within its power and law to bring criminals to their knees, especially as we are approaching the yuletide season.
