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AMA to prosecute persons who deface
the city with posters
Accra, Nov. 19, Ghanadot/GNA - Mr Ali Baba Abature, Public
Relations Officer (PRO) of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly
(AMA), on Monday asked persons who would want to erect
billboards to advertise in the metropolis to seek approval
from the Assembly before embarking on such ventures.
He said the destruction and the pulling down of some
billboards in the metropolis by the Technical Committee on
Outdoor Advertisement Unit over the weekend became necessary
because the AMA had become uncomfortable with the
proliferation of unauthorised billboards in the metropolis.
Mr Abature told the GNA that before anyone would erect a
structure in any part of the city, the one should first and
foremost contact the Technical Committee for an inspection
and approval of the area and the payment of the structure to
be erected.
He said after the payment, the Assembly was again entitled
to 00.5 per cent payment on any poster or advert, which
would be pasted on it.
The PRO said after this had been down, the owner of the
structure would be given a sticker to be pasted on the
billboard to indicate that all payments due to the AMA as
far as the erection of that particular billboard was
concerned had been paid.
He bemoaned instances where many advertisers did not give
the right figures to the Assembly on the number of
structures they had erected, adding that the action that the
Assembly took over the weekend became necessary due to that
act.
Mr Abature said the Technical Committee would meet on
Wednesday to determine whether those who had flouted the law
would be made to pay the cost incurred by the Assembly for
the exercise that it carried out over the weekend.
Mr Timothy Oman, Head of Metro Development Planning
Coordinating Unit of the Assembly said tracing people who
defaced the city with posters for possible prosecution was
very difficult for the Assembly because most of the time the
addresses that they gave to his outfit were wrong and
therefore not traceable.
He said very soon the Unit would embark on a massive removal
of all posters pasted on all the interchanges in the city.
He announced that his outfit had compiled the list of some
persons who would be prosecuted for defacement.
GNA
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