12/12/2021
Poster distributors seek govt. approval to access public school walls, healthcare centres
Posters
By Moses Omorogieva
Lagos, Dec. 12, 2021 (NAN) The Association of Posters Distributors (APD) in Lagos state, has appealed to the State Government to grant them access to walls of public schools and healthcare centres to boost their operations.
The President of APD, Mr Kenny Adisa, made the appeal on Sunday during the inauguration of the new executives for the association in Lagos.
Adisa said that the platforms given to them were not meeting the needs of their clients, indicating that this has affected more customers due to the inability of some people to pay for bill board advertisements.
He said that what also gave rise to the establishment of the APD, was the desire to meet the needs of others in various places to advertise their products at lower levels, including posters.
The president said that the Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency (LASAA) had on Nov. 7, 2012, inaugurated the association to check illegitimate and indiscriminate pasting of posters.
According to him, LASAA wanted a structure and body to coordinate such activities at the lower level, where someone would be held responsible should any thing illegal is pasted.
The president pointed out that in every local government and local community development area in Lagos state, there are public schools and healthcare centres adoring positive positions good for their operations.
“We appeal to the Commissioners for Education and Health to allow us access the public walls. We promise to maintain such walls by clearing such posters when necessary.
“If we have more public walls available, there will be less pressure on ADP by our clients.
“Many of our clients are complaining that we are not meeting their needs due to the platforms we use,” he said.
Adisa said that the big advertisement agencies seemed to be at advantage more than the APD, adding that government should give more platforms to the APD to make them relevant in the advertisement industry in Lagos state.
He said the association has given many people platform to earn a living by pasting posters, stressing that they are working to ensure they have members in Epe and Badagry to create jobs for more `Lagosians’.
Adisa said that the association is working with the regulatory agency to check illegal pasting of posters in different places in the state.
He also appealed to the government to provide them with trucks which they could use to remove unwanted posters from different places.
“We know that the agency has a unit responsible for removing posters, but we can do it better because we pasted them.
“We want to join the state to do this. All we need from the state is vehicles to carry out this work.
“We invite those who are yet to join APD to come in as the law against illegal pasting of posters is still in force in Lagos.
“It is not everywhere you see that you are free to paste posters, all the inner spaces at the pedestrian bridges are meant for APD,” he said.
Adisa said his association is prepared for the 2023 general elections to paste posters for all politicians and political parties in Lagos and other states. (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
