The Lagos State Government has dissociated itself from an advert featuring largely nude women in an open truck, as seen about an hour ago in the Lekki area of the state.
Some people have raised the alarm on social media, prompting the government to react.
According to a statement by the Lagos State Signage & Advertisement Agency(LASAA), signed
by its MD/CEO, Mobolaji Sanusi, it has nothing to do with it.
LASAA thus said investigation was on while appropriate sanctions would be applied when necessary.Below is the statement as shared by the deputy chief Press Secretary to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Gboyega Akosile:
MD/CEO
Indecent Advertising Truck at Lekki Toll gate
The attention of the Lagos State Signage & Advertisement Agency(LASAA) has been drawn to a viral video on social media of a queer display of semi-nude women in an outdoor Mobile advertising truck around the Lekki/Ikoyi toll gate.
While the agency is working on ascertaining the status of the truck with Lagos State plate number.APP713XL, 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 truck exhibited on our roads over the weekend.
The government of Lagos State, under the leadership of Governor Babajide Sanwoolu, has zero tolerance for any slightest attempt by anyone, under any guise, to debase the moral fabric of our dear state. Nobody can hide under the guise of engaging in outdoor advertising business to display obscenity that is antithetical to our cherished cultural and moral values.
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. We assure members of the public that the Agency shall henceforth scrutinize activities of mobile trucks to forestall a recurrence of such an avoidable obscenity.
Signed
Mobolaji Sanusi
MD/CEO
