ASEPA Cautions On Campaign Posters

The Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA) yesterday called on the state House of Assembly to enact a law that would sanction political aspirants who defaced the state with campaign posters.

ASEPA General Manager Cosmas Ndukwe told newsmen in Umuahia that the law became necessary because aspirants campaign posters were defacing public monuments and structures in the state.

Ndukwe threatened that the agency would fine those aspirants who defaced public structures with their posters, noting: that “we will go for the aspirants and not those who pasted the posters.”

He warned the aspirants to desist from causing nuisance with their campaign materials, adding that the opposition parties were flouting the environmental guidelines.

While advising them to be decorous in the way they carry out their campaigns, he said that the indiscriminate pasting of posters and bills was give the agency nightmare.

He advised the use of electronic billboards located in various parts of the state by the state government, warning that the agency would not relent in its effort to protect the environment.

On refuse in Aba, he attributed the indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the commercial nerve centre of Abia to what he described as “attitudinal problem.”

Ndukwe said that “it is becoming difficult to effect change in the behaviour of Aba residents and called on them to be conscious of their environment as well as embrace hygienic living conditions.