After ordering the suspension of the proposed enforcement process for the electronic Central Motor Registry Registration Process (e-CMR), Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun has bowed to the press.
The force spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, released a press statement on Sunday suspending the procedure, which was originally set to start on July 29.
Nigerians expressed outrage over the enforcement order, accusing the police of setting up a chance to extort car owners.
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John Aikpokpo-Martins, the chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law, added that Egbetokun’s order to start enforcing the Central Motor Registry’s digitization was a flagrant disobedience of the law.
However, Adejobi declared in a statement on Sunday that the IG has suspended the enforcement of the e-CMR.
He went on to say that the project, which was intended to secure vehicles, needed to be made more widely known to the public.
Adejobi refuted claims that the e-CMR was a platform for making money while attempting to win over citizens to the cause.
He issued a warning to police officers to cease asking car owners for the e-CMR certificate and threatened to punish those who did so.
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