The police have rebuked the Civil Society Forum’s threats of legal action and maintained a stance on the ban on vehicles with tinted glasses saying it was ready to face the court over the matter, according to Daniel Justin, Police Spokesperson.
Last week the Traffic Police Director General banned all vehicles with tinted glasses on streets in South Sudan, including factory shaded glasses saying contraveners would be taken to court, infuriating members of the Civil Society Forum.
Though they commended the ban as part of security measures, members of the Civil Society Forum say the ban was and is still illegal on cars with factory-tinted window glasses, threatening they will sue the Ministry of Interior should it fail to revoke the order in a three-day-period ultimatum.
“We must not see that order being executed, if it is executed then it will be in contravention with some of the provisions of the law and therefore make us have no option.
“If they cannot reverse that order, we will have to go towards the public litigation, and that is the provision of the constitution and it is the right of the people of this country.” Jame David Kolok, Chairperson of Civil Society Forum said.
“Why do they have to allow those vehicles to come in if they feel that they are not worthy on the roads of South Sudan, it is the responsibility of the Ministry of Interior together with Customs to make sure that there are clear guidelines and specifications of the nature of the vehicles that enter South Sudan,’
It is yet to be ascertained from the Customs Police the guidelines and specification of the nature of vehicles supposed to enter South Sudan as several efforts to reach Director-General, Akol Ayii on phone were unsuccessful.
However, responding to the matter Police Spokesperson, Maj. Gen. Daniel Justin said the Ministry of Interior was ready to face court.
“If they want to go to the court, let them go,” Justin told City Review Wednesday evening last week on a phone conversation.
South Sudan, one of the end-users of Japanese vehicles with shaded window glasses in African, has the majority of vehicles with tinted glasses on the streets.