Onitsha Council Removes Billboards, Posters

Onitsha North Local Government Council in Anambra has embarked on the removal of political and religious billboards and posters that had defaced the commercial city.

Our correspondent reports that other things removed were abandoned property and sign posts erected on major roads.

Prince Edward Okosi, the Transition Committee Chairman, who led the team, told newsmen that the exercise was to give the council a face-lift.

“It is meant to make the roads in the council area clear and discourage those in the habit of placing posters and billboards anywhere without authorisation and instil conformity with the regulation of placing such things,’’ he said.

Okosi also said that commercial vehicles plying the council area had been warned to have a trash baskets in their vehicles to avoid passengers dropping rubbish from moving vehicles.

“We would not tolerate people throwing refuse from buses. From next week, we will start prosecuting drivers of commercial buses who do not have trash baskets according to the state’s environmental laws,’’ he said.

He said that his mandate was to restore the environmental cleanliness and beauty of the area.

Areas where the removal exercise was carried out were Trans-Nkisi Road in GRA, Mission Road, Edgerton Road, Salvo Oil Junction and Zik’s Roundabout.