Opinion

#OpEd: Nigeria Police, Tinted Glass Permits, and the Burden of Illegality By Ayodele Samuel Bishop

“Officer, my car came like this from the factory, why should I pay again?” a frustrated motorist once protested at a checkpoint along the Benin–Ore expressway, the policeman, unmoved, tapped his rifle on the bonnet and replied, “No tinted permit, no movement. Unless you settle us here and now.” The scene ended the way many […]