The Kano State Censorship Board has commenced a state-wide operation targeting commercial tricycles bearing obscene images and indecent inscriptions, in a bid to sanitize public spaces and protect societal values.
Chairman of the Board, Abba El-Mustapha, ordered the deployment of officers to major roads across the state to enforce the directive.
According to him, the operation aligns with the board’s mandate to ensure that content displayed in public, whether visual or textual, adheres to moral and cultural standards.
“Our duty is to ensure that no image or text that can harm public morals or values, especially those of the youth, is displayed without being vetted,”; El-Mustapha said in a statement released by the board’s Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Sani Sulaiman.
He emphasized that the proliferation of explicit visuals on tricycles, popularly known as adaidaita sahu, poses a threat to public decency and moral development, particularly among impressionable members of the society.
Also speaking, the Director of the censorship department, Abubakar Zakari Garun Babba, expressed worry over what he described as a growing disregard for cultural values by some tricycle operators.
He warned that the board would not condone such actions and vowed that the operation would continue until compliance is achieved across the state.
He further urged tricycle riders to desist from displaying inappropriate materials that could attract legal sanctions, and appealed to the public to support the board’s efforts in promoting a morally upright society.
