Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency (LASAA) has responded to recent criticisms regarding its enforcement actions against signage at Halcyon Court on Adeniyi Jones Avenue in Ikeja, Lagos.
Head of Corporate Communication and Strategy, Temitope Akande, disclosed this in a release by the Agency recently. He said the release was in response to an article in a leading newspaper which raised concerns over signage removal by the officials of the Agency.
Akande clarified that the signage in question was not registered during a recent amnesty programme, which allowed businesses to regularise their advertising structures without penalties.
He noted that the developers failed to utilise this opportunity, leading to non-compliance with LASAA’s regulations as provided in Section 412 of LASAA Enabling Law. “Firstly, we want to underscore our commitment to fairness and due process in all our enforcement actions. LASAA operates under strict guidelines to ensure compliance with the state’s outdoor advertising regulations, aimed at maintaining a safe and aesthetically pleasing environment for all residents and businesses. He stated that despite this leniency of the amnesty programme initiated by the Agency, the developers did not take advantage of the amnesty, deliberately leaving some of its signage unregistered, thus non-compliant with our regulations,” he said.
He also expressed further that investigations revealed that the temporary signs were wilfully under-declared, violating LASAA’s guidelines as this is clearly an avenue to circumvent the agency’s process.