Lagos Begins Removal of 358 Illegal Political Billboards

 Managing Director of Lagos State Advertisement and Signage Agency (LASAA), Mr. George Noah

Gboyega Akinsanmi

The Lagos State Government ON Monday directed the removal of 1.5 million political posters and 358 billboards, which it said, were illegally installed in different parts of the state during the electioneering.

The Managing Director of Lagos State Advertisement and Signage Agency (LASAA), Mr. George Noah, disclosed this at a session with journalists in Alausa yesterday, stating the need to clean up the state from all sort of defacement.

George, who addressed the session alongside the agency’s Head of Enforcement, Mrs. Olamide Oyegoke, among others, noted that now that the general election had been concluded, it became imperative “to clean up the state of all posters and billboards defacing our streets and environment.”

On this note, the managing director said the general election had caused so much defacement in both the metropolis and the suburbs.

“It is our duty to ensure immediate removal of all posters, banners, flags as well as other campaign materials across the state.”

“Our operatives have been properly detailed to rid the state highways, roads and streets of all forms defacement. We have expanded our plan to ensure the clean-up exercise is completed in the next two months.

“We are also ready to scale up our effort wherever the need arises. From our findings, 1.5 million posters will be cleaned in the state. We are also removing 358 illegal billboards of various types deployed in the state with Alimosho and Eti-Osa accounting for the highest,” the managing director said.

Also speaking at the session, Oyegoke added that the agency had already mapped out areas requiring heavy clean up attention and had already mobilising its men and equipment to those areas.

LASAA, had in its effort to minimise the abuse of the environment before the just concluded elections, organized a town hall meeting with all political parties where it issued guidelines for the display of election campaign materials in Lagos State.

The agency was involved in an endless battle with various political parties days leading to the general election over indiscriminate use of election campaign materials. It is expected that this cleanup exercise will return the order to the visual environment in Lagos State