In Abia State,it is an open secret that the Tinted Permit costs N5, 000 flat at the Police Hqtrs, Umuahia. You either pay the money or no deal. If you have not filled the form online & generated the print-out, they will send you to their ring member to fill the form online OR confirm your vehicle license number OR to get your NIN from NIMC office. At each stage, people are ripped off and members of the syndicate smile to the banks. Even though the Permit is said to be free, people are either ignorant or scared to challenge their oppressors. Police deliberately create artificial difficulties (like limiting the number of people they will attend to in a day) so as to compel applicants submit to this extortion. Of course, the Police high command cannot feign ignorance of what is going on. It happens in the State Command Hqrs @ Bende Road under the nose of the CP, DCP & ACPs