AMA mounts event billboards

THE Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) is to mount more event billboards in various parts of the city to prevent the indiscriminate pasting of posters at unauthorised places.
The Director in charge of Development Planning at the AMA, Mr Timothy T. Oman, who disclosed this the Daily Graphic, said the move was to ensure that the city was kept clean.
He said the AMA had so far mounted 16 event boards at some parts of the capital. They are the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, the Awudome Cemetery, Accra Polytechnic, La T-Junction, La, Achimota, 37 Military Hospital, Osu Cemetery and the Police Headquarters.
The rest are the Holy Trinity Anglican Church, the Korle-Bu traffic lights, the Shangrila Hotel and the Ann's Preparatory School at North Kaneshie.
Mr Oman said the AMA would need money to remove the adverts pasted on walls, metallic poles and zinc structures because of the adhesive glue used in posting the adverts.
He said the AMA, in collaboration with the Ghana Fire Service, was working to remove posters from unauthorised places, explaining that the zinc structures and metallic poles had to be sprayed with water before the posters could be removed.
He said the assembly had directed the various sub-metros to remove posters pasted at unauthorised places.
Mr Oman said currently the team was removing posters from walls and other places and advised the pubic to desist from pasting posters at unauthorised places.
He advised the public to keep the city clean and help the AMA to discharge its duties effectively.

Picture: Some of the removed banners and posters.