Executive Orders

 

GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE

EXECUTIVE ORDER (NO. EO/BRF/013 OF 2009)

TO:          1. HONOURABLE ATTORNEY GENERAL
             2. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, LAGOS STATE
             3. COMMANDER, LAGOS STATE TASK FORCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND SPECIAL OFFENCES

SUBJECT: PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIALS ON THE STREETS OF LAGOS

PREAMBLE:
The flagrant display, broadcasting and sale of pornographic materials on the streets of Lagos portend great danger to the social health of our people, particularly our young children with such effect as to deprave and corrupt our young children who are likely to read, see or hear the matters contained or embodied in such obscene materials.

Major bus-stops such as Oshodi. Ikeja, Pen-Cinema, Ogba, Ojodu, Iyana-Ipaja, Yaba, Ojuelegba, Ketu, Mile 12, Mile 2, Ojoo, Ikotun, Alaba International Market and even traffic routes have all been noted as points of sale of these obscene materials. There is therefore the need to rid our public places of all these pornographic materials.

NOW THEREFORE, PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN ME AS GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE, IT IS HEREBY

ORDERED:
That the Chairman, Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences do enter upon any known place of distribution of pornographic materials, seize the offending materials and hand-over any person arrested in connection with such matters to the Police for prosecution by the Honourable Attorney General in accordance with the relevant provisions of the law.

Please give this order the widest publicity that it deserves.

This order is intended to improve the internal management of the State Government and is not intended to, or does not create any rights or benefits, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against Lagos State, its departments, agencies or entities, its officers, employers or agents or any other person.

Issued this 29th day of May 2009.

Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN
Governor of Lagos State