Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mohammed Adjei Sowah says he has no knowledge about a billboard mounted in Accra with his image and that of the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Ishmael Ashitey.
The billboards with the inscription, “Welcome to Accra, the Proposed Cleanest City in Africa,”has been pulled down following a public backlash.
Speaking on Accra-based Citi FM, the AMA boss said, his attention was drawn to the billboard at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle area when he was confirmed as Mayor of Accra and asked that it should be pulled down.
Subsequently he said, another billboard was sighted at Kantamanto and he questioned the authorization of that one too.
“It then came to my attention that, people took advantage of the political season to mount billboards for high profiled personalities and politicians and later commercialize those billboards. The particular billboard is one of such,”he stated.
“I initiated an audit on all the billboards in Accra and all illegal billboards have notice from AMA that they would be pulled down within a week which saw the particular billboard being pulled down yesterday(Wednesday) as well as some other ones,”he explained.
According to him, the billboard in question was illegally mounted, city authorities are currently looking for the persons who put it up for possible prosecution.
The mounting of billboards and collection of revenue is done by a private entity on behalf of the AMA.
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