A video of an advertisement van that was carrying half Unclad dancing
girls at the Lekki toll gate went viral this morning. The Lagos State
Signage and Advertisement Agency has now suspended the license of the
firm that owns the van.
The Lagos State Signage & Advertisement Agency(LASAA) has suspended,
pending final investigation, the practicing Licence of an advertising
firm, Provision Media System Limited, over indecent advertisement around
the Lekki/Ikoyi toll gate.
A statement signed by the Managing
Director of LASAA, Mr. Mobolaji Sanusi, on Saturday, said the
unregistered mobile advertising truck which had no valid registration
for the current year 2019 was “illegally deployed in engaging in
abysmally debasing projection of semi-nude women for several hours
around the Lekki/Ikoyi toll gate.”
LASAA said a check on its
records for the current year 2019 confirmed that the truck with Lagos
State plate number APP713XL was not registered with the agency for the
deplorable purpose for which it was deployed by the company on Saturday.
“We
wish to state, without equivocation that, no outdoor mobile advert
truck within the jurisdiction of our dear state is licensed to display
such crass immorality of the calibre that the owner(s) of this
unregistered truck exhibited on our roads over the weekend”, the agency
said.
The agency warned that “the government of Lagos State,
under the leadership of Governor Babajide Sanwoolu, has zero tolerance
for any slightest attempt by anyone, under whatever guise, to debase the
moral fabric of our dear state. Nobody/company can hide under the guise
of engaging in outdoor advertising business to display obscenity that
is antithetical to our cherished cultural and moral values.”
It
added that the full weight of the law, as enshrined in the agency’s
extant law, will be meted on the company owning this erring outdoor
mobile truck after due investigations must have been concluded.
LASAA
also assured members of the public that the agency would henceforth
scrutinise activities of mobile trucks to forestall a recurrence of such
an avoidable obscenity.
“The state under Governor Babajide
Sanwoolu will not in any ramification condone the use of outdoor
advertisement structures, whether static or mobile, to perpetrate
illegally obscene activities,” it added.
Watch the Video of the truck at the Lekki toll gate:
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