NBA- SPIDEL asks IGP to stop demanding, issuing CMRIS certificates

THE Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law ( NBA- SPIDEL) has charged the Inspector General of Police ( IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, to issue a directive, imme diately stopping the issuance of/ demand for the Central Motor Registry Information System ( CMRIS) certificates nationwide.

NBA- SPIDEL further demanded that the registration website and ever y other physical registration centres be shut down, and ever y money already collected from Nigerians be refunded to them within three days of receiving its notice.

This demand is contained in a letter signed by NBA- SPIDEL Chairman, John AikpokpoMartins, and the Secretar y Funmi Adeogun, to the IGP , tilted, ‘ Re: Issuance of Central Motor Registry Information System ( CMRIS) Certificate by the Nigeria Police Force: A Demand for Immediate Stoppage of Same.’

The group described the action as illegal, warning that failure, neglect or refusal to comply with the demand within seven days of the receipt of this letter would compel NBA- SPIDEL to seek appropriate sanctions in court against the IGP and the police.

The letter reads: “The atten - tion of NBA- SPIDEL has been recently drawn to reports all around the country that vehicle owners are mandated to register and obtain a CMRIS Certificate from the Nigeria Police for a cost of not less than N6,000.

“NBA- SPIDEL also has it on good authority that the men of the Nigeria Police ha ve since started enforcing compliance wherein purported defaulters have been made to part with their hard- earned money in thousands of naira. “In the light of these developments, the NBA- SPIDEL questions the legal propriety, which enables the Nigeria Police to issue CMRIS Certificates to vehicle owner.”