Popular musician, Augustine Kelechi, also known as Tekno, has been fingered as the person responsible for conveying semi-nude women dancing seductively in a display truck in traffic around the Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge in Lagos.
Tekno could be seen in the video dancing with the semi-clad women on Friday and spraying them with money, hitting them in the buttocks, as a part of his music upcoming music video.
Fellow artiste, Raphael Omoniyi, popularly known as Zlatan Ibile, also confirmed on Instagram that the video titled, ‘Agege’, featured himself and Tekno.
However, the act is said to be in contravention of Section 136 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 which provides that any person who commits any act of gross indecency with another person in public commits an offence and liable to a conviction to three years imprisonment.
Section 134(a) further stipulates that an indecent act in a public place makes both parties engaging in the act liable to imprisonment for two years.
In the same vein, he Lagos State Signage and Advertising Agency has announced the suspension of the advertising agency whose display truck was used in shooting the video.
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In the statement which was signed by its Chief Executive Officer, Mobolaji Sanusi, the agency said the suspension of Provision Media System Limited would subsist until the completion of investigation.
The statement read in part, “The Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency 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.”
LASAA 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.
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