Music star, Augustine Kelechi, alias Tekno was on Tuesday arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command for breaching public decency with an outdoor advertising displaying semi-nude women. According to Nation newspaper, the singer was quizzed for several hours at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) Panti, Yaba before being granted administrative bail on health grounds. Tekno came under fire last week after a mobile advertisement displayed scantily dressed girls dancing seductively in a transparent glass box on a truck while he sprayed money on them along the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge. Although the singer issued a public apology explaining that it was not an advert but a scene in a video he was currently shooting, the Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency (LASAA) suspended the advertising firm, Pro-Vision Media Systems Limited whose van was used. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Lagos SCIID, Mrs. Yetunde Longe, said inves
The Lagos State Signage & Advertisement Agency (LASAA) has reacted to a viral video on social media wherein music star, Tekno is seen with semi-nude women dancing in an outdoor mobile advertising truck. The footage was captured around the Lekki/Ikoyi Toll Gate at the weekend. Mobolaji Sanusi, LASAA Managing Director, in a statement, said while the agency is working on ascertaining the status of the truck with Lagos State plate number, no outdoor mobile advert truck is licensed to display “such crass immorality”. It noted that the government of Lagos, 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 the 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 statement read. “The full weight of the law, as enshrined in the Agency’s extant law,