The Anti-crime patrol team of the Lagos State Police command, Ikeja Division, at about 2.30 am on Sunday arrested six young men namely: Olagokun Odunayo, Kool-kloud Henry, Ugaju Joseph, Damilola Omidiji, Michael Kate and Banwo Olagokun, of TAKE IT BACK movement, for tearing posters of other political parties and replacing them with that of African Action Congress (AAC).
The act was contrary to Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency (LASAA) laws that forbade advertisers from pasting posters at no other hour than the day time.
Recall that an agreement was reached to the effect that no political party should undertake the defacing of campaign posters of other political parties nor the destruction of their billboards, at a meeting held at the Police Officers Mess, GRA, Ikeja, on Wednesday, December 5, 2018, tagged Security and Stakeholders meeting involving the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Chairmen of all political parties in the state and their flag bearers, chaired by the State Commissioner of Police, CP Edgal Imohimi.
Confirming the arrest, the Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police command, CSP Chike Oti said that a poster bearing the picture of the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, (AAC) Mr. Sowore, brush, buckets containing gums and torn off posters of other political parties were recovered from the suspects as exhibits.
Oti informed that the Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Imohimi Edgal had directed that the suspects be charged to court on Monday for malicious damage and conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace to serve as a deterrent to others.
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